Substack Scraper — Posts, Comments & Publications
Pricing
from $0.15 / 1,000 post returneds
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.
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.
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 = {9 "publications": [10 "astralcodexten",11 "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com",12 ],13 "maxPostsPerPublication": 20,14 "includeBody": True,15 "sort": "new",16 "postTypes": [17 "newsletter",18 "podcast",19 "thread",20 "video",21 ],22 "searchQueries": [],23 "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,24 "search": "",25 "since": "",26 "includeComments": False,27 "maxCommentsPerPost": 100,28 "commentSort": "best_first",29 "includeHtml": False,30 "includePublicationInfo": True,31 "maxConcurrency": 4,32 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },33}34
35# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish36run = client.actor("insight.solutions/substack-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)37
38# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)39print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")40for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():41 print(item)42
43# 📚 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, Comments & Publications API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: