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Substack Newsletter & Author Directory Scraper

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Fast and lightweight scraper for Substack publications. Extracts newsletter names, author names, descriptions, reader estimates, and direct URLs for sponsorship outreach and lead generation.

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Pay per usage

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Mustafa Deniz Karatoprak

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⚡ Features

Author & Publication Info: Scrapes publication title, author name, subdomain, and direct URLs.
Audience Estimates: Extracts subscriber count badges and member statistics (e.g., "Over 50,000 subscribers").
Keyword Filtering: Optionally filter publications by niche keywords (e.g. tech, crypto, finance, health).
Deep Sitemap Crawling: Crawls across 400+ Substack publication sitemaps covering hundreds of thousands of newsletters.
Zero Captchas / Zero Block: Optimized lightweight HTTP worker pool for maximum speed and stability.

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`max_results`	`integer`	`100`	Maximum number of newsletters to extract.
`search_keyword`	`string`	`""`	Optional keyword filter (matches name, description, author).
`sitemap_page`	`integer`	`1`	Sitemap page index (1 to 446). Each page covers ~300 unique publications.

📤 Sample Output Data (JSON)

{
  "name": "ByteByteGo Newsletter",
  "subdomain": "bytebytego",
  "url": "https://bytebytego.substack.com",
  "about_url": "https://bytebytego.substack.com/about",
  "author": "Alex Xu",
  "reader_estimate": "Over 1,000,000 friendly readers",
  "description": "Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series.",
  "logo_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/..."
}

🚀 How to Run

Click Try for free on Apify Store.
Enter your desired max_results and optional keyword filter.
Click Start and export the clean data to Excel, CSV, or JSON.

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