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Substack Scraper: Newsletter Posts, Likes & Comments

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Scrape posts from any Substack newsletter (subdomain or custom domain): title, subtitle, date, authors, likes, comments, wordcount, paid/free and full text of free posts. Date range, category discovery and a new-posts monitor mode.

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Developer

Gabor Sziladi

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Total users

Monthly active users

10 hours ago

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Categories

Social media

News

Automation

Substack publications or post URLs

publications

Required

One per line. Accepted forms:
• A subdomain: noahpinion
• A Substack URL: https://astralcodexten.substack.com
• A custom domain: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com
• A single post URL: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/some-post or https://open.substack.com/pub/name/p/some-post
• An author profile: @lenny or https://substack.com/@lenny (uses the author's main publication)
Only public data is read; no login is used.

Type:array

Default:

[
  "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com",
  "astralcodexten.substack.com",
  "noahpinion"
]

Max posts per publication

maxPostsPerPublication

Optional

Newest-first. Set 0 to get the whole archive (respects the date range).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:10

Published on or after

dateFrom

Optional

Absolute date 2026-01-01 or relative like 30 days, 2 weeks, 6 months. Leave empty for no lower limit.

Type:string

Published on or before

dateTo

Optional

Absolute date 2026-06-30 or relative like 7 days. Leave empty for no upper limit.

Type:string

Post access

audience

Optional

Filter by audience. For paid posts only the public preview text is returned.

Type:string

Default:all

Options:

allfreepaid

Include post content

includeContent

Optional

Fetch each post's body as plain text (and HTML). Free posts: full text. Paywalled posts: only the public preview that Substack shows to logged-out readers. Turn off for faster metadata-only runs (title, date, likes, comments, wordcount, …).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Include HTML body

includeHtml

Optional

Also store content_html (only when content is included).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Only new posts (monitor mode)

onlyNewPosts

Optional

Output only posts that previous runs have not output yet. Each run checks the latest posts (up to Max posts per publication) and remembers what it has seen in a named key-value store. Schedule the Actor to get a feed of new posts; you only pay for new ones.

Type:boolean

Default:false

State store name

stateStoreName

Optional

Named key-value store that remembers seen posts. Use different names for independent monitors.

Type:string

Default:substack-scraper-seen

Discover publications by category

discoverCategory

Optional

Optionally add the top publications of a Substack category (from Substack's public directory) to the list above.

Type:string

Default:none

Options:

nonetechnologybusinessfinancecultureus-politicsworld-politicsnewssciencehealthcryptofoodsportsmusicartfictionliteraturehistoryphilosophyeducationdesignclimatefaithparentingtravelhumorcomicsfashionandbeautyfilm-and-tvgameshome-gardeninternationalhealth-politicspodcast

Max publications to discover

maxDiscoveredPublications

Optional

How many top publications to take from the chosen category.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:10

Publications in parallel

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many publications are scraped at the same time. Requests to any single site are still throttled.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:4

Min seconds between requests to one site

requestIntervalSecs

Optional

Politeness delay per host. Requests are also retried with backoff on HTTP 429/5xx.

Type:number

Minimum:0.2

Maximum:10

Default:0.5

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