Substack Newsletters and Creator Scraper
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Substack Newsletters and Creator Scraper
Scrape Substack publications, writer profiles, subscription pricing, top rankings, and post engagement metrics for outreach and research.
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$1.00 / 1,000 results
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Darim Quraishi
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Extract data on Substack newsletters, authors, subscription pricing plans, contact links, and reader engagement metrics.
Features
- Scrapes publication profiles across 30+ official Substack categories, including Technology, Business, Finance, and Crypto.
- Supports leaderboard filtering by featured publications, top paid, top free, and highest grossing bestsellers.
- Accepts direct Substack URLs, including publications with custom domains.
- Pulls recent article titles, publication dates, like counts, and comment counts to measure reader engagement.
- Extracts monthly, annual, and founding subscription rates with currency codes.
- Queries public endpoints directly without requiring residential proxies.
Input parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
categories | Array of Strings | ["technology", "business"] | Substack categories to crawl (e.g. technology, business, finance, crypto, etc.). |
leaderboardType | String | "all" | Leaderboard filter: all (Popular/Featured), paid (Top Paid), free (Top Free), or bestseller (Top ARR). |
startUrls | Array of Objects | [] | Optional direct Substack publication URLs (e.g., https://bytebytego.substack.com). |
maxPublications | Integer | 50 | Maximum total publications to extract. |
includeRecentPosts | Boolean | true | Extract recent post engagement (titles, publish dates, likes/reactions, comments). |
maxRecentPosts | Integer | 3 | Number of recent articles to analyze per newsletter. |
Output format
json { "name": "The Pragmatic Engineer", "url": "https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com", "subdomain": "pragmaticengineer", "customDomain": "newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com", "category": "Technology", "leaderboardType": "all", "categoryRank": 1, "tagline": "Big tech and high-growth startups: advice from an engineering manager who has been there.", "authorName": "Gergely Orosz", "authorHandle": "gergelyorosz", "authorTwitter": "GergelyOrosz", "authorBio": "Engineering manager and software engineer at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner.", "subscribersCount": 850000, "pricing": { "monthly": 15, "annual": 150, "founding": 250, "currency": "USD" }, "recentPosts": [ { "title": "State of Software Engineering in 2026", "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T12:00:00.000Z", "likesCount": 1840, "commentsCount": 312 } ], "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z" }Use cases
- Sponsorship research: Identify relevant publications and verify reader engagement before buying ad slots.
- Media outreach: Connect with newsletter writers and editors covering your industry.
- Market benchmarking: Compare subscription tiers, pricing, and publishing cadence across categories.
- Creator directories: Build clean databases for outreach and research.
Pricing and efficiency
- Typical runtime: 2 to 4 seconds per execution.
- Zero proxy costs: Runs over public REST and RSS endpoints without residential proxy pools.
- Suitable for scheduled runs and continuous monitoring under standard platform limits.
