📩 Substack Newsletter & Author Leads Scraper

The ultimate B2B lead generation & newsletter intelligence tool.
Extract thousands of Substack newsletters, creator profiles, subscriber tiers, Twitter/X handles, LinkedIn links, and direct contact emails for influencer sponsorship and outreach.

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🚀 Why Use This Scraper?

Substack is home to over 35,000+ top authors, journalists, founders, and subject-matter experts. However, Substack does not provide a directory with exportable emails, social handles, or audience metrics.

This Actor solves that problem:

• 🎯 Direct Business Emails: Extracts verified emails directly from publication settings and /about pages.
• 📈 Audience & Revenue Metrics: Extracts subscriber tiers (e.g. Over 1,100,000 subscribers, Over 50,000 subscribers) and bestseller ranking badges.
• 🔗 Social Media Handles: Grabs Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and YouTube profile links of authors.
• ⚡ Lightning Fast & Ultra Low-Cost: Runs without heavy browser emulation, scraping 100+ newsletters in seconds with near-zero compute cost.

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🔍 Use Cases

1. Newsletter Sponsorship & Advertising: Brands and marketing agencies looking to sponsor high-converting newsletters in tech, finance, crypto, lifestyle, or business.
2. B2B Cold Outreach & PR: Publicists, SaaS founders, and podcast bookers pitching story ideas, product launches, or guest appearances.
3. Market Research & Competitive Intelligence: Track top trending publications, new entrants, and content focus across 20+ categories.

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⚙️ Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
Scrape Mode (mode)	String	Choose between Browse by Category, Search by Keyword, or Custom Publication URLs	category
Category (category)	Select	Select any Substack category (Technology, Business, Finance, Crypto, Culture, News, Science, etc.)	technology
Search Keyword (searchKeyword)	String	Search across all Substack newsletters by specific topic (e.g. artificial intelligence, real estate)	artificial intelligence
Custom URLs (customUrls)	Array	List of specific Substack links to enrich with author details and emails	[]
Max Items (maxItems)	Integer	Maximum number of newsletters to scrape (from 1 to 5,000)	100
Extract Direct Emails (extractEmails)	Boolean	Automatically visits /about pages to extract direct business contact emails	true

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📊 Sample Output (JSON)

{
  "name": "ByteByteGo Newsletter",
  "subdomain": "bytebytego",
  "url": "https://blog.bytebytego.com",
  "customDomain": "blog.bytebytego.com",
  "authorName": "Alex Xu",
  "authorHandle": "@alexxubyte",
  "authorBio": "Software engineer and author of System Design Interview books.",
  "heroText": "Covering topics and trends in large-scale system design.",
  "subscribersTier": "Over 500,000 subscribers",
  "bestsellerTier": 10000,
  "rankingDetail": "#1 in Technology",
  "primaryEmail": "hi@bytebytego.com",
  "allEmails": [
    "hi@bytebytego.com"
  ],
  "twitterUrl": "https://x.com/alexxubyte",
  "linkedInUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/alex-xu",
  "hasPodcast": false,
  "createdAt": "2021-11-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "aboutSnippet": "ByteByteGo covers system design interview topics, architecture deep dives..."
}

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💡 Tips for Best Results

• For Sponsorship Outreach: Filter your exported dataset by primaryEmail and subscribersTier to immediately identify high-impact publications with active contact details.
• For Targeted Niche Campaigns: Use Search by Keyword to find specific sub-niches (e.g., SaaS growth, longevity, biohacking, indie hacker).

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🔒 Privacy & Compliance

This Actor extracts exclusively public metadata and contact info voluntarily published by authors on their public Substack profiles and about pages.