# Scrape Custom-Domain Substacks — News & Politics Monitoring

**Use case:** 

Many of the biggest Substacks run on their own domain, and this run covers three of them: The Bulwark, The Free Press and Slow Boring, 10 latest posts each for 30 rows. Alongside title, author, URL and publish date, each row carries the post type (newsletter or podcast), the audience (free or paywalled), the post's topic tags (where the publication uses them) and full engagement counts. Point it a

## Input

```json
{
  "publications": [
    "www.thebulwark.com",
    "thefp.com",
    "www.slowboring.com"
  ],
  "sort": "new",
  "maxPostsPerPublication": 10,
  "includeBody": false,
  "maxItems": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "publication": {
    "label": "Publication"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "Author"
  },
  "postDate": {
    "label": "Post date"
  },
  "audience": {
    "label": "Audience"
  },
  "likes": {
    "label": "Likes"
  },
  "commentCount": {
    "label": "Comment count"
  },
  "restacks": {
    "label": "Restacks"
  },
  "wordcount": {
    "label": "Wordcount"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Url"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Substack Scraper — Newsletter Posts, Engagement & Authors](https://apify.com/pepeschuster/substack-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/pepeschuster/substack-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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