How to get Skillshare courses for FREE

By Suraj Chaudhary

If you’re a student, a professional, a creator, or just someone who wants to learn things, you must have come across Skillshare and must have thought “How to get Skillshare courses for FREE?”

During this era of multiple platforms for courses such as Udemy, Coursera, edX, and several others, it’s hard to pick one and be satisfied with it, and paying for all the platforms doesn’t seem practical unless you’re a millionaire or billionaire or just don’t care about money that much. Or like me, if you are a student and live in a country where making international payments is really difficult, alternatives would be better. I had the same problem so I did some research.

So can you get Skillshare courses for free? Yes, you can get Skillshare courses for free. To do so, you can use cookies. The details are in this article.

In the rest of this article, I’ll show you exactly how you can get any and all Skillshare courses for free without paying a penny. Follow along.

How to get Skillshare courses for FREE?

Video Guide

The steps are the same for both Skillshare and Udemy.
You can also get Udemy for FREE

Part 1: Setting up the environment

Step 1: Open the latest version of Chrome.

Step 2: Go to this link to install the Cookie-Editor extension.

Screenshot 2023 01 17 at 3.23.31 PM

Step 3: Install the extension to Chrome.

Part 2: Setting up the environment to get the class

Step 1: Go to Skillshare.com

Step 2: Click on the Cookie-Editor extension.

Step 3: Click on “Delete All” to clear the cookie of Skillshare.com.

Skillshare step 2

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"value": "e98c76b25852fcc3736b830a60f3e9f51a42a16fa%3A4%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A8%3A%2230047877%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A18%3A%22freeud43%40gmail.com%22%3Bi%3A2%3Bi%3A7776000%3Bi%3A3%3Ba%3A5%3A%7Bs%3A8%3A%22username%22%3Bs%3A9%3A%22175678775%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22login_time%22%3Bs%3A19%3A%222023-05-11%2014%3A13%3A36%22%3Bs%3A10%3A%22touch_time%22%3Bs%3A19%3A%222023-06-04%2000%3A43%3A18%22%3Bs%3A5%3A%22roles%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22locale%22%3Bs%3A2%3A%22en%22%3B%7D%7D"
},
{
"domain": ".skillshare.com",
"expirationDate": 1715054388.949596,
"hostOnly": false,
"httpOnly": false,
"name": "sm_uuid",
"path": "/",
"sameSite": null,
"secure": false,
"session": false,
"storeId": null,
"value": "1680494543172"
},
{
"domain": "www.skillshare.com",
"expirationDate": 1688517789,
"hostOnly": true,
"httpOnly": false,
"name": "visitor_tracking",
"path": "/",
"sameSite": null,
"secure": false,
"session": false,
"storeId": null,
"value": "utm_campaign=269814&utm_source=%28direct%29&utm_medium=%28none%29&utm_term=admitad+GmbH&referrer=&referring_username="
}
]

Step 5: Go back to Skillshare.com.

Step 6: Click on the Cookie Editor and click on “Import”.

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Step 7: Paste the code you copied and then click on Import.

Screenshot 2023 01 17 at 3.38.32 PM

Step 8: Refresh the page.

Step 9: Congrats! You have Skillshare Premium for free. Enjoy!!

Screenshot 2023 01 17 at 3.41.57 PM

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Suraj Chaudhary is a writer, developer, founder, and a constant learner. He shares lessons and resources for living a fuller life every week. On this blog, he shares helpful guides and helpful articles that help his 70,000+ monthly readers find answers, solve problems, and meet their curious needs.

87 thoughts on “How to get Skillshare courses for FREE”

  1. Hi Suraj.

    Sadly the cookie does not work anymore :'(
    It was wonderful while it lasted, so thank you for that 🙂

    Reply
  2. Sadly, not working again. “unknown error” shown at the bottom of the import cookie window… refreshing page just shows login box. Tried deleting all cookies and trying again.

    can you help?
    thanks for the code!

    Reply

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