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Substack Scraper

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Scrape any Substack newsletter: all posts with likes, comments, authors, paywall status, word count and optional full text as clean Markdown for LLM/RAG. Search posts or newsletters (with subscriber counts) by keyword. No login, fast JSON API.

Pricing

Pay per event

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Developer

Markus Essl

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

16 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Social media

News

You can access the Substack Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        "https://www.astralcodexten.com"
13    ],
14    "maxItems": 20
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("exciting_pawpaw/substack-scraper").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

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The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Substack Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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