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Substack Scraper — Posts·Comments·Subscribers w/ EMAILS

Scrape Substack newsletters — full post content, threaded comments, tags, authors, podcast episodes and EXACT subscriber counts. Works with custom domains, date filters, paid-post detection, optional author contact emails. Any publication or post URL. Pure HTTP, JSON/CSV out.

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Muhamed Didovic

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Categories

Social media

Lead generation

News

Substack URLs

startUrls

Optional

Substack URLs to scrape. Newsletter homepages (https://noahpinion.substack.com or custom domains like https://www.noahpinion.blog), /archive or /about pages, and direct post URLs (https://…/p/some-post) are auto-classified.

Type:array

Publication shortcuts

publications

Optional

Bare Substack subdomains or domains — each expands to that publication's homepage. E.g. 'noahpinion' expands to https://noahpinion.substack.com. Used in addition to Start URLs.

Type:array

Max posts per newsletter

maxPostsPerNewsletter

Optional

Maximum number of posts to scrape per newsletter. Set to 0 for unlimited (full archive).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:50

Max posts total

maxItems

Optional

Hard cap on post rows across the whole run (all newsletters combined).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:1000

Sort order

sortOrder

Optional

Archive ordering. 'new' = newest first (recommended — enables early stop when combined with Start date). 'top' = most popular first.

Type:string

Default:new

Options:

newtop

Include post content (bodyHtml + bodyText)

includeBody

Optional

Include the full post body as HTML and plain text. Disable for metadata-only scraping — smaller rows, faster runs. Note: paywalled posts return only their free preview portion (flagged via bodyIsPreviewOnly).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include comments

includeComments

Optional

Fetch comments for each post (one extra API call per post that has comments). Emits one rowType:'comment' row per comment with parentCommentId preserved, joinable to posts via postId.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max comments per post

maxCommentsPerPost

Optional

Maximum comment rows per post, including nested replies. Set to 0 for unlimited. Only applies when 'Include comments' is on.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Include publication info

includePublicationInfo

Optional

Emit one rowType:'publication' row per newsletter — name, author (name/handle/bio), description, EXACT free-subscriber count, custom domain, language, created date.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Content type

contentType

Optional

Filter by post type.

Type:string

Default:all

Options:

allnewsletterpodcastthread

Start date (YYYY-MM-DD)

startDate

Optional

Only posts published on or after this date. With sort order 'Newest first' the scraper stops paginating at the cutoff — fewer API calls, faster and cheaper.

Type:string

End date (YYYY-MM-DD)

endDate

Optional

Only posts published on or before this date.

Type:string

Free posts only

onlyFree

Optional

Skip paywalled posts (audience is 'only_paid' or 'founding'). Paywalled posts otherwise return their free preview portion.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Enrich with contact emails (experimental, billed per email)

enrichEmails

Optional

Try to find a contact email for each publication/author by discovering their website and reading its contact/about pages. Adds contactEmail + contactWebsite to the publication row plus a detailed emailEnrichment object. Billed per email found — never charged for misses.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many posts to process in parallel. Substack's API tolerates moderate parallelism; raise carefully (429s are auto-retried with back-off).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Default:5

Max request retries

maxRequestRetries

Optional

Retries for failed API requests.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:5

Proxy configuration (override)

proxy

Optional

Explicit proxy override. Leave empty to use the actor's built-in residential routing (recommended).

Type:object

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