MediaPull

Downloads skool.com videos – either directly from a classroom/post URL (login is taken from the browser) or from a master .m3u8 URL.

Requirements

• macOS (cookie decryption via Keychain + openssl)
• yt-dlp and ffmpeg → brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg
• A Chromium-based browser in which you are logged in to skool (default: Helium; also chrome, brave, chromium, edge, arc)

Usage

# Single lesson (URL from the browser address bar, with ?md=...)
./mediapull.py "https://www.skool.com/<community>/classroom/<id>?md=<lesson>"

# List all lessons of a course with links
./mediapull.py --list-lessons "https://www.skool.com/<community>/classroom/<id>"

# Download the entire course
./mediapull.py --all "https://www.skool.com/<community>/classroom/<id>"

# Choose quality / only show qualities
./mediapull.py URL -q 720
./mediapull.py URL --list

# Different browser / profile
./mediapull.py URL -b chrome --profile "Profile 1"

# Stage 1: direct master .m3u8 URL (e.g. from the DevTools)
./mediapull.py "https://stream.video.skool.com/....m3u8?token=..."

Options: -q/--quality {best,1080,720,480,worst,audio}, -o/--output, -b/--browser, --profile, --list, --list-lessons, --all.

How it works

1. Cookies: reads the skool cookies from the browser's Chromium cookie DB and decrypts them with the Keychain key (auth_token etc.).
2. Extraction: loads the page, reads playbackId + playbackToken from the __NEXT_DATA__ JSON and builds the manifest URL https://stream.video.skool.com/{playbackId}.m3u8?token={playbackToken}.
3. Download: yt-dlp downloads the HLS and muxes to MP4. skool restricts playback via the Referer header to skool.com – this is set automatically.

Note

Use only for content you have legitimate access to (your own membership), for personal use. Respect the platform's terms of service and copyright.