Substack Post Details Scraper

Get a Substack post by URL, ID, or publication and slug. Returns the full body as HTML and plain text (the free preview for paid posts), title, subtitle, author, publication, publication date, engagement, paywall status, word count, cover image, podcast audio and tags.

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
url	string	no	Post URL, e.g. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit (max 500 characters). Provide url, post_id, or publication and slug.
post_id	string	no	Numeric post ID, as returned in post_id. Provide url, post_id, or publication and slug.
publication	string	no	Publication subdomain, host or URL, used together with slug.
slug	string	no	Post URL slug, e.g. all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit, used together with publication.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per run — a flat $0.003 per run.

• One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.003 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
• 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 run ($0.003). Other failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "post": {
    "title": "All of the Lenny & Friends Summit talks are now online!",
    "subtitle": "Plus, some reflections and takeaways from the day",
    "url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit",
    "date": "2026-09-29 13:15:57",
    "author": "lenny",
    "author_name": "Lenny Rachitsky",
    "author_id": "1849774",
    "author_url": "https://substack.com/@lenny",
    "source": "Substack",
    "domain": "substack.com",
    "snippet": "Plus, some reflections and takeaways from the day",
    "likes": 285,
    "comments": 7,
    "restacks": 5,
    "authors": [
      {
        "username": "lenny",
        "name": "Lenny Rachitsky",
        "user_id": "1849774",
        "url": "https://substack.com/@lenny"
      }
    ],
    "replies": 0,
    "audio_url": "",
    "podcast_image_url": "",
    "video_duration": 0,
    "reactions": {
      "\u2764": 285
    },
    "is_paid": false,
    "audience": "everyone",
    "type": "newsletter",
    "wordcount": 1276,
    "lang": "en",
    "cover_image_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9fed347c-0e02-4190-a590-1236719b99de_9213x6142.jpeg",
    "podcast_url": "",
    "podcast_duration": 0,
    "tags": [],
    "publication": "Lenny's Newsletter",
    "publication_id": "10845",
    "publication_url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com",
    "slug": "all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit",
    "post_id": "215694124",
    "body_html": "<p><em>\ud83d\udc4b Hey there, I\u2019m Lenny. Each week, I share deeply researched product, growth, and career advice. For more: <a href=\"https://www.lennysjobs.com/\">Lenny\u2026",
    "body_text": "\ud83d\udc4b Hey there, I\u2019m Lenny. Each week, I share deeply researched product, growth, and career advice. For more: Lenny\u2019s Job
  ... (truncated)

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