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✍️📬 Substack People Scraper | Bulk Substack Profile Scraper | Apify Actor

🚀 Extract Substack People & Publication Data in Seconds (No Code)

The Substack People Scraper (Apify Actor) is a powerful, scalable and SEO-optimized profile scraping tool built to extract public author and publication data from Substack.

Collect thousands of Substack creator profiles in bulk, enrich lead databases, discover newsletter authors, analyze publishing trends, build AI datasets, and export everything in structured formats for marketing, CRM enrichment, research, and automation.

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🔥 Why This Substack Scraper?

✔ Best Substack profile scraper on Apify

✔ Supports bulk keyword scraping (multi-search)

✔ Fast & scalable profile extraction

✔ 100% structured JSON / CSV / Excel output

✔ Ideal for creator discovery & newsletter intelligence

✔ Perfect for marketers, agencies, recruiters & data analysts

✔ No coding required

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🎯 What This Scraper Does (Substack Profile Data Extraction)

This Apify Actor extracts public Substack people profiles and publication information directly from Substack search results.

📌 Core Features

✅ Search public Substack profiles

✅ Bulk keyword scraping (SEO BOOST 🚀)

✅ Extract author names & handles

✅ Extract biographies

✅ Extract profile photos

✅ Extract Twitter/X accounts

✅ Extract publication details

✅ Extract publication plans

✅ Extract publication creation dates

✅ Extract profile creation dates

✅ High-speed extraction engine

✅ Clean structured datasets

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⚡ Input Configuration (Simple & Powerful)

🔥 BULK KEYWORD MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

{
  "keywords": [
    "technology",
    "artificial intelligence",
    "finance",
    "marketing",
    "crypto",
    "health"
  ],
  "max_items": 200
}

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📊 Extracted Profile Data (Structured Output)

Field	Description
id	Unique profile ID
name	Author name
handle	Substack username
previous_name	Previous display name
photo_url	Profile image
bio	Author biography
profile_set_up_at	Profile creation date
profile_disabled	Disabled status
twitter	Linked Twitter/X account
publications	Publication information

Each publication may include:

• publication_id
• publication_name
• subdomain
• hero_text
• founding_plan_name
• created_at
• theme_color
• payments_state

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💡 Use Cases (High Demand SEO Keywords)

This Substack scraper is perfect for:

📬 Newsletter creator discovery

👤 Substack profile scraping

📈 Creator economy research

📊 Newsletter market analysis

🎯 Lead generation

🏢 CRM enrichment

🤖 AI training datasets

📢 Influencer discovery

🔍 Media intelligence

⚡ Bulk profile extraction

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🚀 Key Features (Apify SEO Optimized)

⚡ Bulk keyword scraping support

🌍 Public Substack profile coverage

📌 Smart search engine

🧠 Clean structured datasets

📊 High-speed extraction

🔁 Auto retry & stability system

💾 Export-ready output

☁️ Scalable cloud execution (Apify Actor)

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📤 Output Formats Supported

✔ JSON (API Ready)

✔ CSV (Excel Analysis)

✔ Excel XLSX

✔ XML

✔ HTML

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📦 Example Output

{
  "id": 7201506,
  "name": "John McDonald",
  "handle": "johnmcdonald711547",
  "previous_name": "N/A",
  "photo_url": "https://cdn.substack.com/image.jpg",
  "bio": "I am in the restaurant, media and storytelling business.",
  "profile_set_up_at": "2021-10-15T16:15:51.489Z",
  "profile_disabled": false,
  "twitter": "N/A",
  "publications": [
    {
      "publication_id": 519118,
      "name": "BROKEN PALATE",
      "subdomain": "brokenpalate",
      "hero_text": "Where food and culture collide",
      "founding_plan_name": "VIP Member",
      "created_at": "2021-10-09T12:15:27.930Z",
      "theme_color": "#9A6600",
      "payments_state": "enabled"
    }
  ]
}

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🔥 Why This is the BEST Substack People Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify marketplace ranking

✔ Enterprise-grade scraping engine

✔ Bulk keyword support (rare feature)

✔ Rich creator & publication metadata

✔ Clean structured datasets

✔ High-speed execution

✔ Perfect for creator intelligence

✔ Built for SEO visibility

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💸 Pricing

This scraper uses a pay-per-result pricing model.

💳 Price: $2.38 / 1,000 results

You only pay for successfully extracted profiles.

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❓ FAQ (SEO BOOST SECTION)

Can I scrape multiple keywords at once?

Yes — bulk keyword mode is fully supported.

Can I discover newsletter creators?

Absolutely. Search by names, topics, brands, industries, or keywords.

Does it extract publication information?

Yes — publication metadata is included whenever available.

Is coding required?

No — this is a 100% no-code Apify Actor.

Can I export my data?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML are supported.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent data extraction solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Substack.

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🔗 Related Actors (Creator Intelligence Ecosystem)

We are building the complete PrimeScrape Creator Intelligence Suite.

👉 Coming Soon 🚀

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🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for large-scale scraping, automation, AI datasets, lead generation and market intelligence.

👤 Creator intelligence

📬 Newsletter analytics

🏢 Company intelligence

📈 Market research

🤖 AI datasets

⚙️ Automation pipelines

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📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review if you enjoy this scraper.

📩 Contact us through Apify for enterprise requests, custom scraping solutions, or new feature development.