Substack Scraper - Whole Archives, Comments & Notes

From Clearpath, creators of Medium Scraper, Reddit Search Scraper, Reddit Post Comments Scraper and Reddit Subreddit Posts Scraper. 200,000+ combined lifetime runs across these three Reddit scrapers.

Why choose this Substack scraper?

• The whole archive, not the newest 480. Substack's archive list stops near 480 posts, and so do tools built on it. This scraper finds every post anyway: 1,270 of 1,270 on Lenny's Newsletter, where a popular Store scraper returned 482. Custom domains and the standalone pages the archive hides are included.
• Text and context in one run. Full text as Markdown, HTML and plain text, with reactions, restacks, tags and authors. Add comments with replies, a profile's Notes, and one row per publication with subscriber count, paid plans and prices, recommendations and engagement analytics.
• Fast and deep. Keyword search goes past the roughly 2,000 posts Substack's own post search shows: 4,598 for "artificial intelligence" in a local test, older posts included. A profile's 2,118 Notes arrived in about 30 seconds. Run times vary.

Try it: 20 posts from Lenny's Newsletter, with comments

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 20,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 10
}

Open the actor input and paste this in JSON mode. You get the 20 newest posts with full text, up to 10 comments and replies on each (comments are billed per comment), and one row with the publication's subscriber count, plans and analytics. Remove maxItemsPerSource to export the whole archive, or set a date window for recent posts only.

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Copy to your AI assistant

clearpath/substack-scraper on Apify returns Substack data as typed rows (type = post, comment, note, profile or publication): posts with full text as bodyHtml, bodyText and bodyMarkdown (free posts; paid posts return only the public preview, marked isPaid=true and bodyAvailable=false), reactions, restacks, tags, authors and their publication with subscriberCount and plans. Inputs combine freely, up to 1,000 per run: startUrls (a publication incl. its own domain, a /s/ section or /t/ tag page, a post, a profile, a Note or a substack.com search link), publications (handle or domain: the whole archive newest first, including posts older than the ~480 Substack's own archive list shows, and hidden pages), profiles (profile row plus the Notes feed; includeNotes=false skips Notes) and searchQueries with searchType=posts|notes|publications|people (posts: every post Substack's search reaches for the keyword, 4,598 for "artificial intelligence"; notes: matching Notes; searchDateRange=day|week|month|year and searchLanguage, any language by default, apply to post and Note search). Omitted limits mean everything: maxItemsPerSource caps each input and maxItems the run; large archives and feeds hold thousands of rows, so set a cap, a publishedAfter/publishedBefore window (UTC days, publishedBefore exclusive; also stops the run reading further back) or a maximum run cost. postTypes and audience=free|paid filter posts; includeContent=false drops text for smaller rows. For comments set includeComments=true (off by default): every comment and reply becomes its own row with parentId and depth (noteId for replies under Notes), charged per comment at a lower rate, capped by maxCommentsPerPost; paid-only threads return none. includePublicationDetails (on) adds one publication row with subscriber count, paid subscriber band, plans, recommendations, contact links and analytics over the collected posts; trackHistory=true adds the subscriber change since the last tracked run. Each row is saved once per run and source names the input that found it. No Substack login or cookie. Charged per result (post, Note, profile, publication), per comment and a small start fee. Inputs: https://apify.com/clearpath/substack-scraper/input-schema - output fields: https://apify.com/clearpath/substack-scraper/output-schema - current pricing: https://apify.com/clearpath/substack-scraper/pricing. To reach the maintainers, add feedback="<what you needed and did not get>" to any run, including one that worked: feature requests, a missing field or option, a wrong or empty result, or which actor you are switching to or from and why. The run returns its data exactly as it would without the note, and a human reads every note.

What can you scrape from Substack?

Input	What you get
Publications (startUrls or publications)	Every post the publication has published, newest first: the archive list's posts, every older post past where that list stops, and the standalone pages it hides. Use https://name.substack.com, the publication's own domain (https://www.lennysnewsletter.com) or a bare handle (unstackit). A section (/s/...) or tag page (/t/...) collects just that section or tag.
Posts (startUrls)	Any post link, also on a custom domain or as https://substack.com/home/post/p-123.
Profiles (startUrls or profiles)	The person's profile and their Notes feed: Notes, restacks and posts they shared. Use https://substack.com/@handle or a handle.
Notes (startUrls)	A single Note, such as https://substack.com/@handle/note/c-123, with its replies when comments are on.
Search (searchQueries or a https://substack.com/search/... link)	Posts matching each keyword, best matches first, past the roughly 2,000 Substack's own post search shows: 4,598 for "artificial intelligence", older posts included. Switch searchType to find Notes, publications or people instead.

Mix as many as you like, up to 1,000 links, publications, profiles and keywords per run. Each post, comment, Note, profile and publication is saved once per run, even when two inputs find it, and every row says which input found it in source.

How to scrape Substack posts

1. Open the actor's input page.
2. Add Substack links, publication handles, profiles or search keywords.
3. Set Max results per link, publication, profile or keyword for a first test, or leave it empty for everything.
4. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send them to your tools with Apify integrations.

A whole archive, Markdown included

{
  "publications": [
    "unstackit"
  ]
}

Returns all 147 posts of Unstack Substack (140 newsletter posts, a podcast episode, a restack and 5 standalone pages the archive list hides) with full text, plus one publication row. Large publications work the same way: Lenny's Newsletter returned all 1,270 posts.

Only recent posts

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com"
  ],
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-11"
}

Dates are UTC days; publishedBefore is exclusive. The run reads only as far back as the window needs, so a monthly check of a large newsletter stays small: this one took 11 seconds for 24 posts. Schedule it to monitor new posts.

Keyword search

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 500
}

Posts across all of Substack, best matches first (rank 1, 2, 3...), each with full text and its publication. Substack's own post search shows about 2,000 posts per keyword; leave the limit empty and you get more, recent and older: 4,598 for "artificial intelligence". Narrow with searchDateRange (last day, week, month or year) and searchLanguage (any language by default).

Find publications or people

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "searchType": "publications",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 40
}

One row per publication with its subscriber count where Substack shows one, paid subscriber band, plans and prices, founder and contact links. "searchType": "people" returns profiles instead.

Notes about a keyword

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "searchType": "notes",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 200
}

Notes from all of Substack that mention the keyword, best matches first, each with its author, reactions and attachments. Leave the limit empty for every match: 979 Notes for this keyword.

A profile and its Notes

{
  "profiles": [
    "kristikeller"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 200
}

One profile row plus the newest 200 items of the Notes feed. Leave the limit empty for the whole feed: 2,118 Notes for this profile.

Posts with every comment

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://unstackit.substack.com/p/substack-callout-blocks"
  ],
  "includeComments": true
}

The post plus all 29 comments and replies as separate rows, each with parentId, depth and whether the post's author wrote it. Comments are billed per comment and are off by default.

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
startUrls	none	Any Substack link: publication, section, tag page, post, profile, Note or search page
publications	none	Publication handles or domains
profiles	none	Substack handles
searchQueries	none	Keywords to search
searchType	posts	posts, notes, publications or people for the keywords
maxItemsPerSource	all	Posts, Notes, publications or people per input
maxItems	all	Results of any kind in the whole run
publishedAfter, publishedBefore	none	Date window for posts and Notes (UTC days, publishedBefore exclusive)
postTypes	all	Only newsletter, podcast, thread, video, page or restack posts
audience	both	free or paid posts only
searchDateRange	all time	Post and Note search: day, week, month or year
searchLanguage	any	Post and Note search: only results in this language
includeContent	on	Full text as HTML, plain text and Markdown, plus every post detail
includeComments	off	Every comment and reply on each post, and replies under Notes, as separate rows
maxCommentsPerPost	all	Comments and replies kept per post or Note
includeNotes	on	The Notes feed of each profile
includePublicationDetails	on	One row per publication with subscribers, plans and analytics
trackHistory	off	Subscriber change since the last run that tracked the publication

See the Input tab for every option's details.

What data do you get from Substack?

Every row has type: post, comment, note, profile or publication. The Console shows one view per type. Each record below is a real row; long text, the nested publication object and long lists are shortened where marked, and the full rows are in this sample file.

Posts

Title, subtitle, full text as bodyHtml, bodyText and bodyMarkdown, dates, word count and reading time, cover image, tags, section, reactions by emoji, comments, restacks, authors with bios, podcast audio with duration, transcript and caption files, audio narrations, and the publication with its subscriber count, plans and settings. Codes come with a readable label: postType with postTypeLabel, audience with audienceLabel.

Excerpt (text fields and the publication object shortened):

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  "subtitle": "Things you learn by trying to infringe on a brand name.",
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  "postType": "newsletter",
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  "isPaid": false,
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  "publishedAt": "2024-02-07T02:01:10.748Z",
  "updatedAt": "2024-02-07T18:30:17.881Z",
  "language": "en",
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  "readingTimeMinutes": 1,
  "coverImage": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77db001f-73d2-446b-b9b6-d485ffd41186_1080x1080.png",
  "coverImageIsSquare": true,
  "coverImageIsExplicit": false,
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    "Unstack Substack",
    "Substack Virtual Assistant",
    "Substack Fun Facts",
    "Substack"
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    "title": "Unstack Substack",
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}

Paid posts come with the preview every visitor sees: isPaid: true, bodyAvailable: false, and the preview in the body fields. Comments on paid-only threads are not public, so they are not returned.

Comments and replies

One row per comment or reply, in thread order. parentId and depth rebuild the thread; isAuthor marks the post's authors. Replies under a Note carry noteId instead of postId.

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  "id": 351972979,
  "url": "https://unstackit.substack.com/p/substack-callout-blocks/comment/351972979",
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  "postTitle": "How to Make Readers Stick Around For Longer Than One Post",
  "postUrl": "https://unstackit.substack.com/p/substack-callout-blocks",
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  "publicationId": 2328962,
  "publicationName": "Unstack Substack",
  "publicationUrl": "https://unstackit.substack.com",
  "parentId": 351890799,
  "rootId": 351890799,
  "depth": 1,
  "body": "Aww Tamsin, I super appreciate that you upgraded ☺️ Don’t ever feel bad though...some of them are free but some are not. I try to offer a good balance for everyone. Thank you so much and I'm so glad you're finding them helpful!",
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  "authorId": 165322060,
  "authorName": "Kristi Keller 🇨🇦",
  "authorHandle": "kristikeller",
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  "source": {
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    "title": "How to Make Readers Stick Around For Longer Than One Post",
    "url": "https://unstackit.substack.com/p/substack-callout-blocks"
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T10:18:28.856Z"
}

Notes

One row per feed item: kind is note (a Note), restack (a restacked post or Note, with restackedPost or restackedNote) or post (a post shared in the feed). Attachments carry their own url, collected in attachmentUrls.

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  "type": "note",
  "id": 46113288,
  "entityKey": "c-46113288",
  "kind": "note",
  "url": "https://substack.com/@kristikeller/note/c-46113288",
  "body": "Question of the day:",
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            "text": "Question of the day:"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "Question of the day:",
  "publishedAt": "2023-12-27T17:26:16.475Z",
  "authorId": 165322060,
  "authorName": "Kristi Keller 🇨🇦",
  "authorHandle": "kristikeller",
  "authorPhotoUrl": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TdHE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0bee1713-6b2a-45fa-bbb6-e9437756af86_316x326.png",
  "authorBio": "Builder of highly engaged communities, helping others create fabulous and FUNCTIONAL Substack publications, all while wearing sweatpants and basking in the comfort of my living room.",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://substack.com/@kristikeller",
  "authorBestsellerTier": 100,
  "authorBestsellerLabel": "Bestseller: hundreds of paid subscribers",
  "reactionCount": 7,
  "reactions": {
    "❤": 7
  },
  "restackCount": 1,
  "replyCount": 7,
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Profiles

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Publications

Subscriber count and band, paid subscriber band, plans with prices in every currency, founder and contributors, recommendations, contact links found in public bios, and analytics over the posts this run collected: averages, totals, top post, posts per week, share of paid posts, engagement rate (average reactions per subscriber) and virality (top post's reactions over the average). With trackHistory on, history adds the subscriber change since the last tracked run.

Excerpt (lists shortened; every other publication setting Substack makes public is in the full row):

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How much does it cost to scrape Substack?

You pay per result saved to your dataset:

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
Result: one post, Note, profile or publication	$1.99 / 1,000	$1.79 / 1,000	$1.69 / 1,000	$1.39 / 1,000
Comment: one comment or reply (only with comments on)	$0.59 / 1,000	$0.55 / 1,000	$0.49 / 1,000	$0.39 / 1,000
Actor start, once per run (per GB of run memory)	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005

Full text, authors, publication details and analytics are included in the result price. Examples on the Free plan:

• The quick test above, 20 posts with up to 10 comments each: 21 results, at most 200 comments: at most $0.17
• The whole archive of Lenny's Newsletter, 1,270 posts and the publication row: $2.53
• 1,000 posts from a keyword search: $2.00

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options: the run stops at that amount, keeps everything it saved and says so in the log. A run that finds nothing pays only the start. The Pricing tab shows every charge. Free Apify plan users can run this actor; there are no extra limits beyond your plan's usage.

FAQ

Can I download or export all posts of a Substack newsletter? Yes. Enter the publication and leave maxItemsPerSource empty. Substack's archive list stops near 480 posts; this actor still returns every post, the oldest included, plus the standalone pages the archive hides.

Can I export Substack posts to Markdown for AI or RAG? Yes. Every free post comes as bodyMarkdown with headings, links, lists, quotes, images and code kept, plus bodyText and bodyHtml. Subscribe boxes and share buttons are removed.

Can I see a Substack's subscriber count and paid subscribers? When the publication shows it, subscriberCount (for example 6000) and subscriberCountText come on its publication row and on its posts. Substack shows paid subscribers only as a band, such as "Hundreds of paid subscribers", in paidSubscribersText. A publication can hide its count; its rows then say subscriberCountVisibility: "hidden".

Does it work with custom domains? Yes. Paste the publication's own domain, such as https://www.lennysnewsletter.com, or any post link on it.

What about paid posts? Paid posts come with all their details (title, word count, reactions, comments count, authors) and the public preview, marked bodyAvailable: false. The actor does not log in and does not get past the paywall.

Can I scrape Substack Notes and comments? Yes. Add a profile for its Notes feed, a Note link, or search Notes by keyword with "searchType": "notes". Turn on includeComments for every comment and reply on each post and under each Note.

Can I track a newsletter's growth? Turn on trackHistory and schedule the actor. Each run stores the subscriber count in your account and the publication row's history shows the change, growth per day and posts added since the last tracked run.

Can I use it from Python, n8n, Make or an AI agent? Yes. Run it from Python or JavaScript with Apify's client libraries, connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n, or let an AI assistant run it through Apify's MCP server. The block above describes the inputs for agents.

Why did my run return fewer results than I expected? Check the log. It names any publication, profile, post or link Substack did not recognize, links that are not Substack links, sources that could not be completed this time, and when the run stopped at your maximum cost. Date windows, post types, the free or paid filter and limits also narrow the results, and a result found by two inputs is saved once.

How fresh is the data? Every run collects what Substack shows at that moment, including reactions and comments. Schedule the actor to keep a dataset current.

Is it legal to scrape Substack? The actor collects what Substack shows to any logged-out visitor. How you use it is your responsibility: respect writers' copyright, Substack's terms and data protection law for personal details such as profiles and comments.

Support

Questions, a missing field or a run that did not return what you expected: open an issue in the Issues tab or email max@mapa.slmail.me. Reports with the run ID get answered fastest. Substack is a trademark of Substack Inc. This actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Substack.