📰 Substack Newsletter & Posts Intelligence Scraper

Fast, reliable, and lightweight scraper for Substack publications, newsletters, podcasts, and articles.

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⚡ Key Features

• Blazing Fast: Asynchronous official REST endpoint extraction with zero browser overhead.
• Rich Post Intelligence:
  • title & subtitle
  • Canonical url
  • postDate
  • reactions & commentsCount
  • audience (free vs paid tier indicator)
  • coverImage & audioUrl (podcast attachments)
  • Optional full text body content extraction.
• Works on Custom Domains: Handles .substack.com subdomains as well as custom domains (e.g. pragmaticengineer.com).

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📥 Input Example

{
  "publications": [
    "thealgorithmicbridge",
    "https://pragmaticengineer.com"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerPublication": 30,
  "includeContent": false
}

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📤 Output Example

{
  "title": "I Have Been Writing About AI For 6 Years: Something Changed This Summer",
  "subtitle": "Notes on becoming, like everyone else, obsolete",
  "publication": "https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com",
  "url": "https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/i-have-been-writing-about-ai-for",
  "postDate": "2026-09-28T16:37:54.975Z",
  "reactions": 142,
  "commentsCount": 38,
  "audience": "everyone"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per post ($2 per 1,000). You only pay for results delivered. Platform compute is included, so there are no extra usage charges. Set a maximum budget on the run to cap spend.

How to use it

1. Open the Input tab and fill in the fields (the prefilled example works as is).
2. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
3. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

You can schedule runs, call the actor from the API, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent through MCP.

FAQ

Is the data live? Yes. Each run fetches fresh data at the time you run it.

What happens when nothing is found? The run finishes without charging for empty results.

Can I use this in an AI agent? Yes. It runs with limited permissions and returns structured JSON, so agents can call it through the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal? The actor collects publicly available information. You are responsible for using the data in line with the source's terms and applicable law, including privacy rules. Do not use it to collect personal data without a lawful basis.

Something broke or you need a field added? Open an issue on the Issues tab. Reports are read and fixed quickly.