Substack Category Feed Scraper

Get a Substack category's feed: the posts and notes Substack shows for the topic, top, newest or posts only. Each item is tagged note or post. Supports fetching multiple pages in a single API call.

Features

• Real-time Substack data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
category	string	yes	Category ID or slug, e.g. 4 or technology.
sort_by	string	no	Sort order: top, most_recent or posts (posts only, no notes) One of: top, most_recent, posts.
pages	integer	no	Number of pages to fetch and merge into one response (1-250, billed per page returned). Each page returns about 11 items. Fetching stops early when there are no more results.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per page of results — $0.003 per page.

• Results come in pages. Use the pages input to choose how many pages to fetch (1–250); more pages means more results.
• You pay $0.003 for each page you fetch, so pages: 3 costs $0.009 and pages: 1 costs $0.003.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds, or when it fails because what you asked for was looked up and doesn’t exist, is private, or isn’t valid: that costs one page ($0.003). Other failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "attachments": [],
  "author": "sifuyik",
  "author_id": "73134922",
  "author_name": "Sifu Yik Chan",
  "author_url": "https://substack.com/@sifuyik",
  "body": "50 legendary websites that feel like the internet\u2019s hidden toolbox \ud83e\uddf0\n\n1. http://unpaywall.org \u2014 Free research papers\n\n2.\u2026",
  "date": "2026-09-23 04:15:17",
  "domain": "substack.com",
  "lang": "en",
  "likes": 16089,
  "note_id": "343671380",
  "publication": "Sifu Yik's Substack",
  "replies": 89,
  "restacks": 4337,
  "reactions": {
    "\u2764": 16089
  },
  "author_pic_url": "",
  "author_bestseller_tier": 0,
  "source": "Substack",
  "type": "note",
  "url": "https://substack.com/@sifuyik/note/c-343671380"
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable Substack and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.