Substack Search Users Scraper

Search Substack authors and publication profiles by name or keyword. Returns handle, display name, bio, follower count, subscriber badge, bestseller tier and primary publication for each profile.

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 profiles.

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

{
  "username": "lenny",
  "full_name": "Lenny Rachitsky",
  "user_id": "1849774",
  "biography": "Writing \u2022 Angel investing \u2022 Advising",
  "profile_pic_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/afba5161-65bb-4d99-8d6b-cce660917fa1_1540x1540.png",
  "follower_count": 1383966,
  "subscriber_count": 1200000,
  "subscriber_count_label": "1.2M+",
  "bestseller_tier": 10000,
  "is_bestseller": true,
  "paid_subscriber_band": "Tens of thousands",
  "paid_subscriber_floor": 10000,
  "leaderboard": {
    "board": "paid",
    "category": "Business",
    "category_id": 62,
    "rank": 1
  },
  "twitter_handle": "lennysan",
  "primary_publication": {
    "publication_id": "10845",
    "name": "Lenny's Newsletter",
    "subdomain": "lenny",
    "url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com",
    "logo_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/441213db-4824-4e48-9d28-a3a18952cbfc_592x592.png"
  },
  "date_joined": "2021-05-01 23:55:21",
  "url": "https://substack.com/@lenny"
}

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.