Substack Leaderboard Scraper
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Substack Leaderboard Scraper
Export ranked Substack publications by category with subscriber, pricing, author, and rank-change data.
Substack Leaderboard Scraper
Pricing
from $0.02 / 1,000 leaderboard publications
Export ranked Substack publications by category with subscriber, pricing, author, and rank-change data.
You can access the Substack Leaderboard 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.
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