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Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Search

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Scrape Substack posts by keyword or from any newsletter's archive: full text (HTML + plain text), author, date, likes, comment count, paywall flag, plus optional full comment threads. Incremental runs by date. No login or browser. Pay only for the rows you get.

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from $1.50 / 1,000 dataset items

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3 days ago

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Social media

News

Lead generation

You can access the Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Search 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 = {
9    "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"],
10    "publications": ["https://www.astralcodexten.com"],
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("axlymxp/substack-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Substack Scraper – Posts, Comments & Newsletter Search API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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