Substack Publication Scraper
Pricing
from $8.25 / 1,000 items
Scrapes Substack publications for posts, authors, and engagement data. Returns each post as a flat row with title, date, likes, comments, and full text. No login required.
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, youโll 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 "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(f"๐พ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():24 print(item)25
26# ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ 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: