Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Paraphrase with AI
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Scrape Substack (substack.com) posts by keyword search, publication or post URL: title, author, date, full text, tags, reactions and comments with free sentiment, plus AI summaries. Cross-run caching returns only new posts. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or API.
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