Substack Publication Scraper
Pricing
from $8.25 / 1,000 items
Pull every public post from any Substack publication with title, subtitle, body preview, author, publish date, podcast URL, audience type, comment count, and reactions. Filter by post type and date range. Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel for newsletter research and competitive intelligence.
You can access the Substack Publication Scraper 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 Integrations settings 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 "maxItems": 10,10 "publications": [11 "lex",12 "stratechery",13 ],14 "sortBy": "new",15 "postType": "all",16}17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish19run = client.actor("parseforge/substack-publication-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)22print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])23for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():24 print(item)25
26# 📚 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 Publication Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: