Unlock Insights from Substack with Ease 📰

Substack Publication Scraper is a powerful and versatile web scraping tool that allows you to effortlessly extract a wide range of data from Substack publications. Whether you're conducting market research, analyzing industry trends, or building a comprehensive Substack database, this scraper has you covered.

What Data Can You Extract? 🔍

With Substack Publication Scraper, you can extract the following data points:

• author_id
• copyright
• cover_photo_url
• created_at
• custom_domain
• hero_image
• hero_text
• homepage_type
• id
• invite_only
• language
• logo_url
• name
• type
• is_personal_mode
• plans
• author_name
• author_handle
• author_photo_url
• author_bio
• has_posts
• has_podcast
• has_free_podcast
• has_subscriber_only_podcast
• has_community_content
• freeSubscriberCount
• base_url
• hostname
• is_on_substack

How Can You Use the Extracted Data? 🤔

The data collected by Substack Publication Scraper can be invaluable for a variety of use cases, such as:

• 💡 Identifying trending topics and popular Substack publications
• 🤑 Analyzing successful Substack monetization strategies to inform your own
• 📊 Conducting market research and competitive analysis
• 🚀 Optimizing your Substack marketing and growth campaigns
• 🧠 Building a comprehensive database of Substack publications for research and analysis

How to Use Substack Publication Scraper 🛠️

Using Substack Publication Scraper is a breeze, even if you've never extracted data from the web before. Here's how:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open the Substack Publication Scraper.
3. Input the Substack publication URL you want to scrape.
4. Click the "Start" button and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your data in your preferred format (JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML).

Unlock the power of Substack with Substack Publication Scraper today! 🚀

• Input

  A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

  1{
  2    "searchUrl": "https://substack.com/search/media?utm_source=global-search&searching=publication",
  3    "maxLimit": 100
  4}
  

• 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.

  [
  

{ "author_id": 14223284, "copyright": "Unmade Pty Ltd", "cover_photo_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a93191d-b140-411b-9ee3-0d5c6c1b1076_1000x500.png", "created_at": "2020-08-03T07:58:19.752Z", "custom_domain": "www.unmade.media", "hero_image": null, "hero_text": "Media and marketing news with all the in-depth analysis, insight and context you need. ", "homepage_type": "magaziney", "id": 77000, "invite_only": false, "language": "en", "logo_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ab93e47-0129-41a4-99cd-19f351286806_256x256.png", "name": "Unmade: media and marketing analysis ", "type": "newsletter", "is_personal_mode": false, "plans": "A$650 a year | A$65 a month | founding999000aud", "author_name": "Tim Burrowes", "author_handle": "unmade", "author_photo_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe45ff5b2-9756-4616-b444-b5dda0731845_4896x3264.jpeg", "author_bio": "I write about the world's media and marketing industry from an Australian perspective Australian lens. I've worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia. I founded Mumbrella, which we sold in 2017.", "has_posts": true, "has_podcast": true, "has_free_podcast": true, "has_subscriber_only_podcast": true, "has_community_content": true, "freeSubscriberCount": "18,000", "base_url": "https://www.unmade.media", "hostname": "www.unmade.media", "is_on_substack": false }, ... ]