Substack Leaderboard Scraper 📊

Powerful scraper for extracting comprehensive data from Substack leaderboards. Get detailed insights about top newsletters, their performance, and monetization metrics.

🔥 Features

• Scrapes complete publication data from Substack leaderboards
• Extracts detailed metrics including subscriber counts, pricing plans, and engagement data
• Captures author information, publication details, and monetization settings
• Supports multiple currency pricing information
• Handles pagination automatically
• Built-in stealth mechanisms to ensure reliable scraping

📋 Use Cases

• Newsletter market research
• Competitive analysis
• Content strategy planning
• Pricing strategy research
• Author and publication discovery
• Media industry analysis

💎 Output Data

Each scraped publication includes:

• Publication name, description, and URL
• Subscriber counts and rankings
• Author details and social media links
• Pricing plans across multiple currencies
• Publication settings and features
• Podcast and community information
• Monetization configurations
• Theme and customization settings

🔍 Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following inputs:

• leaderboardUrls: Array of Substack leaderboard URLs to scrape
• maxItems: Maximum number of items to scrape (optional)
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (optional)

💡 Tips

• Use proxy configuration for better reliability
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Consider rate limiting for large-scale scraping

📝 Notes

• Respects Substack's robots.txt
• Built with Puppeteer for reliable data extraction
• Includes automatic retries and error handling

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "leaderboardUrls": [
        "https://substack.com/leaderboard/technology/paid"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

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