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Substack Newsletter Scraper — Posts, Reactions & Authors

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Scrape any Substack newsletter's posts from its public API: title, URL, publish date, free/paid, word count, reactions, comments, restacks, tags and authors — with optional full body text. No API key, no login, no browser.

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Berkan Kaplan

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You can access the Substack Newsletter Scraper — Posts, Reactions & Authors 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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