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Substack Leaderboard Scraper

Substack Leaderboard Scraper Substack Leaderboard scraper extracts publicly available ranking data, newsletter names, authors, categories, subscriber indicators, and leaderboard metrics 🏆📰 Perfect for market research, creator discovery, trend analysis, and competitive intelligence.

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How it works

Each leaderboard URL is parsed into a category slug and a ranking type — https://substack.com/leaderboard/technology/paid → technology, paid.
The slug is resolved to a numeric category id via GET https://substack.com/api/v1/categories (with a bundled fallback map).
Publications are read from the public leaderboard API, paginated 25 at a time: GET https://substack.com/api/v1/category/public/{categoryId}/{type}?page=N&limit=25. This endpoint already returns the complete publication object (plans, theme, appTheme, contributors, logoPalette, subscriber ranking details, …) — no per-publication request is needed.
Every publication is pushed to the dataset, enriched with leaderboardUrl, leaderboardRank, and scrapedAt.

Networking

Built on the requested stack:

requests — primary HTTP client.
curl_cffi — automatic fallback with a real Chrome TLS fingerprint, used whenever requests returns a block/challenge (401/403/407/429/503 or a challenge page) or raises.
regex — leaderboard-URL parsing and embedded-JSON (window._preloads) extraction.
parsel — lightweight HTML parsing (page title / validation).

Apify Proxy is used by default; a pool of pre-rotated proxy URLs is cycled across requests.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`leaderboardUrls`	`string[]`	One or more `https://substack.com/leaderboard/<category>/<paid\|free>` URLs. Required.
`maxItems`	`integer`	Max publications to scrape in total. `0` = unlimited. Default `50`.
`proxyConfiguration`	`object`	Proxy settings. Default: Apify Proxy.

{
  "leaderboardUrls": ["https://substack.com/leaderboard/technology/paid"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output

One dataset item per publication — the full Substack publication object plus:

leaderboardUrl — the source leaderboard URL.
leaderboardRank — 1-based rank on that leaderboard.
scrapedAt — ISO-8601 timestamp (...Z).

Run locally

pip install -r requirements.txt
apify run       # requires the Apify CLI

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