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Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Publications

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Scrape Substack as data. One row per post: title, full text, word count, paywall flag, likes, restacks, tags, author. Plus comment threads with reply depth, publication profiles with prices and subscriber hints, and Substack-wide publication search. Public posts only, no login, no API key.

Pricing

from $0.15 / 1,000 post returneds

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Insight Solutions

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Monthly active users

9 days ago

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Marketing

You can access the Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Publications 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

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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    "publications": [
12        "astralcodexten",
13        "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com"
14    ],
15    "maxPostsPerPublication": 20,
16    "includeBody": true,
17    "sort": "new",
18    "postTypes": [
19        "newsletter",
20        "podcast",
21        "thread",
22        "video"
23    ],
24    "searchQueries": [],
25    "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
26    "search": "",
27    "since": "",
28    "includeComments": false,
29    "maxCommentsPerPost": 100,
30    "commentSort": "best_first",
31    "includeHtml": false,
32    "includePublicationInfo": true,
33    "maxConcurrency": 4,
34    "proxyConfiguration": {
35        "useApifyProxy": true
36    }
37};
38
39// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
40const run = await client.actor("insight.solutions/substack-scraper").call(input);
41
42// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
43console.log('Results from dataset');
44console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
45const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
46items.forEach((item) => {
47    console.dir(item);
48});
49
50// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Full Text API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Publications 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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