Substack Posts Scraper
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from $1.00 / 1,000 posts
Substack Posts Scraper
Scrape posts from any Substack publication, including custom domains: title, date, likes, comments, restacks, authors, paid/free flag, optional full text — newest first, with date filter and CSV/JSON export. No login.
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from $1.00 / 1,000 posts
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Ilia Muravev
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Get the posts of any Substack publication — on *.substack.com or a custom domain — as JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into your own tools via API. No login, no cookies: it reads the same public archive that powers the publication's own "Archive" page.
Paste publication URLs, subdomains or author handles, set how many posts you need (or a date like "90 days"), optionally turn on Include post content to get the text of every post.
What you get
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
publication, publicationName, publicationAuthor | Host (e.g. www.lennysnewsletter.com), name and author of the publication |
id, slug, url, title, subtitle, description | The post and its listing summary |
date, type | Publication time (UTC); newsletter, podcast, thread or video |
audience, isPaid, wordCount | Free vs paywalled, length |
reactions, reactionCount, commentCount, restacks | Engagement as shown publicly |
authors, tags, section, coverImage | Bylines with handles, tags, section |
podcastUrl, podcastDuration | For podcast posts |
previewText | First lines of the post as Substack lists them |
bodyText, bodyHtml | Only with Include post content: full text of free posts; for paid posts the public preview an anonymous reader sees |
Posts come newest first per publication. A per-publication summary (name, author, posts fetched, errors) is saved to the key-value store as SUMMARY.
Input
- Publications — any mix of
lenny,astralcodexten.substack.com,https://www.astralcodexten.com, a post URL, or an author handle@lenny/https://substack.com/@lenny(resolved to the author's primary publication). - Max posts per publication — newest first, read in pages of 25.
- Only posts newer than —
2026-01-31or7 days/2 weeks/3 months/1 year. Scraping stops at the first older post, so a daily run with1 daycosts almost nothing. - Include post content — one extra request per post, charged as a separate event.
- Proxy — off by default.
Limits and notes
- Paywalled posts return exactly what Substack shows to non-subscribers: metadata plus the public preview. The Actor cannot and does not bypass paywalls.
- Comments and Notes are not included.
- A subdomain that was moved to a custom domain (e.g.
lenny.substack.com) is followed automatically. If a subdomain turns out to be a personal profile rather than a publication, the run says so and continues with the rest. - Public data only; the Actor stores nothing beyond the dataset of your run.
Pricing
Pay per post — plus a small per-post fee when you ask for the full content. Runs that return zero posts cost nothing.
Typical uses
Newsletter monitoring and competitive research, feeding posts into an LLM for summaries or topic tracking, building a reading digest of many publications, archiving your own publication, engagement benchmarks (likes, comments, restacks per post) over time.
