
📚 Substack People Scraper
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📚 Substack People Scraper
2 hours trial then $19.99/month - No credit card required now
A powerful scraping tool that extracts comprehensive Substack author and publication data using keywords. Get detailed insights about writers, their publications, themes, and engagement metrics to understand the newsletter ecosystem.
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Created in Feb 2025
Modified 8 days ago
Scrape Substack author profiles and user information based on keywords. Get detailed data about Substack writers, publications, and their content.
🔍 What does Substack People Scraper do?
This actor allows you to:
- Search and scrape Substack author profiles using keywords
- Extract detailed publication information including name, description, custom domains
- Get author details like bio, photo URL, handle, and social links
- Collect publication themes and styling preferences
- Track subscription and membership states
- Monitor community engagement settings
✨ Features
- 🎯 Keyword-based search targeting
- 📊 Comprehensive profile data extraction
- 🚀 High-performance scraping with Puppeteer
- 🛡️ Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
- ⚡ Parallel processing support
- 🔄 Automatic pagination handling
- 💾 Structured JSON output
💡 Use Cases
- Content creator research
- Newsletter market analysis
- Competitor monitoring
- Audience insights gathering
- Publication trend tracking
- Writer community mapping
📋 Input Parameters
The actor accepts the following parameters:
keywords
: Array of search terms to find Substack authorsmaxItems
: Maximum number of results to collect
📦 Output
Results are stored in JSON format containing:
- Author profile details
- Publication information
- Subscription data
- Theme configurations
- Community settings
💪 Benefits
- Save hours of manual research
- Get structured, ready-to-analyze data
- Stay updated on Substack ecosystem
- Discover new writers and publications
- Track industry trends
🔒 Compliance
This actor respects Substack's robots.txt and implements reasonable delays between requests.
Input Example
A full explanation of an input example in JSON.
1{ 2 "keywords": [ 3 "sam" 4 ], 5 "maxItems": 50 6}
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.
1[ 2 { 3 "keyword": "sam", 4 "id": 294278669, 5 "name": "Samantha", 6 "handle": "clubfemboy", 7 "previous_name": "Femboy Clubhouse", 8 "photo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg", 9 "bio": "I'm a feminine boy that loves fashion, aesthetics, and femininity in the broadest sense. I started dressing ever since I was born and never looked back!", 10 "profile_set_up_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z", 11 "tos_accepted_at": null, 12 "profile_disabled": false, 13 "userLinks": [], 14 "publicationUsers": [ 15 { 16 "id": 361603, 17 "user_id": 294278669, 18 "publication_id": 435931, 19 "role": "admin", 20 "public": true, 21 "is_primary": false, 22 "publication": { 23 "id": 435931, 24 "name": "Club Femboy", 25 "subdomain": "clubfemboy", 26 "custom_domain": null, 27 "custom_domain_optional": false, 28 "hero_text": "Where every Femboy may become their most beautiful, feminine self.", 29 "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9f9b588-5666-41db-9fb1-815e99f1db1d_1280x1280.png", 30 "author_id": 294278669, 31 "theme_var_background_pop": "#EA82FF", 32 "created_at": "2021-08-08T22:01:35.029Z", 33 "rss_website_url": null, 34 "email_from_name": null, 35 "copyright": "Samantha", 36 "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member", 37 "community_enabled": true, 38 "invite_only": false, 39 "payments_state": "enabled", 40 "language": null, 41 "explicit": false, 42 "is_personal_mode": false, 43 "author": { 44 "id": 294278669, 45 "name": "Samantha", 46 "handle": "clubfemboy", 47 "previous_name": "Femboy Clubhouse", 48 "photo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg", 49 "bio": "I'm a feminine boy that loves fashion, aesthetics, and femininity in the broadest sense. I started dressing ever since I was born and never looked back!", 50 "profile_set_up_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z" 51 } 52 } 53 }, 54 { 55 "id": 3523594, 56 "user_id": 294278669, 57 "publication_id": 3457346, 58 "role": "admin", 59 "public": true, 60 "is_primary": false, 61 "publication": { 62 "id": 3457346, 63 "name": "Femboy Clubhouse", 64 "subdomain": "femboyclubhouse", 65 "custom_domain": null, 66 "custom_domain_optional": false, 67 "hero_text": "Where every femboy can blossom into their most enchanting, uwu-tastic self~", 68 "logo_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d36784c6-9abe-457c-bec0-ecdafb7c172d_167x167.png", 69 "author_id": 294278669, 70 "theme_var_background_pop": "#FF6719", 71 "created_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:08.340Z", 72 "rss_website_url": null, 73 "email_from_name": null, 74 "copyright": "Femme", 75 "founding_plan_name": null, 76 "community_enabled": true, 77 "invite_only": false, 78 "payments_state": "enabled", 79 "language": null, 80 "explicit": false, 81 "is_personal_mode": false, 82 "author": { 83 "id": 294278669, 84 "name": "Samantha", 85 "handle": "clubfemboy", 86 "previous_name": "Femboy Clubhouse", 87 "photo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg", 88 "bio": "I'm a feminine boy that loves fashion, aesthetics, and femininity in the broadest sense. I started dressing ever since I was born and never looked back!", 89 "profile_set_up_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z" 90 } 91 } 92 } 93 ], 94 "subscriptions": [ 95 { 96 "user_id": 294278669, 97 "id": 635974553, 98 "visibility": "public", 99 "membership_state": "free_signup", 100 "type": null, 101 "is_founding": false, 102 "email_settings": { 103 "2474": "individual", 104 "2519": "individual", 105 "2520": "individual", 106 "22019": "individual", 107 "39917": "individual" 108 }, 109 "section_podcasts_enabled": [ 110 2520, 111 39917, 112 22019, 113 2474, 114 2519 115 ], 116 "publication": { 117 "id": 1, 118 "name": "On Substack", 119 "subdomain": "on", 120 "custom_domain": null, 121 "custom_domain_optional": false, 122 "hero_text": "Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack. ", 123 "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba81cfff-7bc5-4aef-866e-864d0942c42d_1000x1000.png", 124 "author_id": 41856304, 125 "theme_var_background_pop": "#FF6719", 126 "created_at": "2017-12-12T04:37:34.302Z", 127 "rss_website_url": null, 128 "email_from_name": "Substack", 129 "copyright": "Substack", 130 "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member", 131 "community_enabled": true, 132 "invite_only": false, 133 "payments_state": "disabled", 134 "language": null, 135 "explicit": false, 136 "is_personal_mode": false, 137 "author": { 138 "id": 41856304, 139 "name": "Substack Team", 140 "handle": "substackteam", 141 "previous_name": "Substack Writers", 142 "photo_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0cc9b93-5469-46f3-b2c9-ee0392b93a64_1000x1000.png", 143 "bio": "Resources, news, and stories for @Substack writers and creators.", 144 "profile_set_up_at": "2022-06-16T19:10:43.399Z" 145 }, 146 "theme": { 147 "publication_id": 1, 148 "background_pop_color": "#FF7731", 149 "cover_bg_color": "#ffffff", 150 "color_links": null, 151 "web_bg_color": "#ffffff", 152 "home_posts": "custom", 153 "font_preset_heading": "fancy_serif", 154 "font_preset_body": "fancy_serif", 155 "font_family_headings": null, 156 "font_family_body": null, 157 "font_size_body_desktop": null, 158 "font_family_ui": null, 159 "print_secondary": null, 160 "custom_css_web": null, 161 "custom_css_email": null, 162 "default_post_header_variant": null 163 } 164 } 165 } 166 ], 167 "subscriptionsTruncated": false, 168 "hasGuestPost": false, 169 "primaryPublication": { 170 "id": 435931, 171 "subdomain": "clubfemboy", 172 "custom_domain_optional": false, 173 "name": "Club Femboy", 174 "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9f9b588-5666-41db-9fb1-815e99f1db1d_1280x1280.png", 175 "author_id": 294278669, 176 "user_id": 294278669, 177 "handles_enabled": false, 178 "explicit": false, 179 "is_personal_mode": false 180 }, 181 "max_pub_tier": 2, 182 "hasActivity": true, 183 "hasLikes": true, 184 "lists": [], 185 "rough_num_free_subscribers_int": 10000, 186 "rough_num_free_subscribers": "Tens of thousands", 187 "bestseller_badge_disabled": false, 188 "bestseller_tier": null, 189 "subscriberCountString": "24K+ subscribers", 190 "subscriberCount": "24K+", 191 "subscriberCountNumber": 24000, 192 "hasHiddenPublicationUsers": false, 193 "visibleSubscriptionsCount": 1, 194 "slug": "samantha", 195 "previousSlug": "femboy-clubhouse", 196 "isSubscribed": false, 197 "isFollowing": false, 198 "followsViewer": false, 199 "scrapedAt": "2025-02-10T05:12:00.935Z" 200 }, 201 ... 202]
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