Substack Scraper — Posts to JSON & AI-Ready Markdown
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from $2.00 / 1,000 post scrapeds
Scrape every post from any Substack newsletter (including custom domains). Get titles, authors, dates, likes, comments, paywall status, tags and full post text as clean Markdown for AI/RAG. No login, no browser.
You can access the Substack Scraper — Posts to JSON & AI-Ready Markdown 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "publications": ["on.substack.com"] }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("harmonious_handball/substack-scraper-markdown").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Substack Scraper — Posts to JSON & AI-Ready Markdown API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: