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Substack Posts Scraper: Newsletter Archive, Comments, Paywall

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Scrape Substack posts from any newsletter: the full publication archive as Markdown/HTML with paywall status, likes, comments, tags, podcasts and profile. Substack has no public read API; this is the alternative. No login, no proxies. Pay per post.

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from $1.40 / 1,000 post scrapeds

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Matthew Edward

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10 days ago

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You can access the Substack Posts Scraper: Newsletter Archive, Comments, Paywall programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "publicationUrls": ["https://www.lennysnewsletter.com"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("agentbuilt/substack-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Substack Posts Scraper - Newsletter Archive & Comments API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Substack Posts Scraper: Newsletter Archive, Comments, Paywall API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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