# Top-Performing Substack Posts — Most Liked & Restacked

**Use case:** 

Sorts Astral Codex Ten by Substack's own 'top' ranking and returns 20 of its top-ranked posts, each with likes, comment count, restacks, word count, publish date, audience and canonical URL. Use it to see which headlines and topics actually earned reactions before writing your own, or to pull a publication's greatest hits in a single run. Rows arrive in Substack's own top order — sort the export b

## Input

```json
{
  "publications": [
    "astralcodexten"
  ],
  "sort": "top",
  "maxPostsPerPublication": 20,
  "includeBody": false,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "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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