Substack Search Publications Scraper

Search Substack publications by name or keyword. Returns name, URL, tagline, author, subscriber badge, paid-subscriber band, prices, bestseller tier and language for each publication.

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
query	string	yes	Search keyword (max 500 characters).
page	integer	no	Page number for pagination (1-4). Each page returns up to 20 publications.
language	string	no	Two-letter language code, e.g. es, to rank publications in that language first

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

{
  "author": "cryptoyall",
  "author_id": "89093778",
  "author_name": "Josh Rhodes - Crypto Y'all",
  "author_url": "https://substack.com/@cryptoyall",
  "bestseller_tier": 0,
  "cover_image_url": "",
  "created_at": "2025-11-06 02:36:02",
  "custom_domain": "",
  "description": "Tired of feeling lost in the crypto world? We\u2019ll teach you how the market really works\u2014so you can spot opportunities, av\u2026",
  "domain": "substack.com",
  "first_post_date": "2026-06-09 15:38:18",
  "has_podcast": true,
  "podcast": null,
  "sections": [],
  "author_pic_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e6dX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ff3e27c-70ae-4556-9000-a84bf76e3dd3_2973x2377.jpeg",
  "logo_url_wide": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3X7s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F097d2cae-589f-466e-942c-e42391021862_480x254.png",
  "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member",
  "has_recommendations": false,
  "has_chat": true,
  "is_bestseller": false,
  "language": "en",
  "logo_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e6dX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.\u2026",
  "name": "Josh Rhodes - Crypto Y'all",
  "paid_enabled": true,
  "paid_subscriber_band": "",
  "paid_subscriber_floor": 0,
  "plans": [
    {
      "amount": 40.0,
      "currency": "USD",
      "interval": "month"
    },
    {
      "amount": 439.0,
      "currency": "USD",
      "interval": "year"
    }
  ],
  "publication_id": "6822164",
  "ranking_detail": "Launched 4 months ago",
  "source": "Substack",
  "subdomain": "cryptoyall",
  "subscriber_count": null,
  "subscriber_count_label": "12
  ... (truncated)

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