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Substack Scraper – Posts, Comments, Publications & Authors

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Scrape Substack newsletters without logging in: posts with full HTML and plain text, likes and restacks, flattened comment threads, paywall flags, category leaderboards and author profiles as clean typed rows.

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Developer

Banea Teodor

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Total users

Monthly active users

5 days ago

Last modified

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Record type

recordType

Required

post, comment, publication or author — filter on it when mixing posts and comments

Type:string

Example:

post

Scraped at

scrapedAt

Required

ISO 8601 timestamp of extraction

Type:string

Example:

2026-10-08T14:30:00.000Z

Post ID

postId

Optional

Substack post id

Type:integer | null

Example:

219204484

URL

url

Optional

Canonical post URL, publication URL or author profile URL

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/top-forecasters-on-the-plague

Slug

slug

Optional

Post slug

Type:string | null

Example:

top-forecasters-on-the-plague

Publication

publicationName

Optional

Publication name (best effort, from the homepage metadata)

Type:string | null

Example:

Astral Codex Ten

Publication host

publicationHost

Optional

Final host of the publication after redirects

Type:string | null

Example:

www.astralcodexten.com

Publication subdomain

publicationSubdomain

Optional

Substack subdomain

Type:string | null

Example:

astralcodexten

Publication URL

publicationUrl

Optional

https://{host}

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.astralcodexten.com

Publication tagline

publicationTagline

Optional

Publication hero text

Type:string | null

Example:

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Publication subscribers

publicationFreeSubscriberCount

Optional

Free subscriber count when Substack exposes it

Type:integer | null

Example:

120000

Title

title

Optional

Post title

Type:string | null

Example:

Top Forecasters On The Plague

Subtitle

subtitle

Optional

Post subtitle

Type:string | null

Example:

...

Description

description

Optional

Short description / social preview text

Type:string | null

Example:

...

Authors

authorNames

Optional

Byline names

Type:array

Example:

[
  "Scott Alexander"
]

Author handles

authorHandles

Optional

Byline Substack handles

Type:array

Example:

[
  "astralcodexten"
]

Posted at

postDate

Optional

ISO 8601 publication date

Type:string | null

Example:

2026-10-07T21:13:16.863Z

Type

type

Optional

newsletter, podcast, thread or video

Type:string | null

Example:

newsletter

Audience

audience

Optional

everyone, only_paid or founding

Type:string | null

Example:

everyone

Paywalled

isPaywalled

Optional

True for subscriber-only posts (content is a preview)

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

Word count

wordCount

Optional

Substack's word count

Type:integer | null

Example:

880

Likes

likes

Optional

Heart reactions

Type:integer | null

Example:

243

Comments

commentCount

Optional

Number of comments

Type:integer | null

Example:

Restacks

restacks

Optional

Number of restacks

Type:integer | null

Example:

Cover image

coverImageUrl

Optional

Cover image URL

Type:string | null

Example:

https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/x.jpeg

tags

Optional

Post tags

Type:array

Example:

[
  "AI"
]

Section

sectionName

Optional

Publication section the post belongs to

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Podcast URL

podcastUrl

Optional

Audio file for podcast posts

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Podcast duration (s)

podcastDurationSeconds

Optional

Episode length in seconds

Type:integer | null

Example:

null

Body (HTML)

bodyHtml

Optional

Full post HTML (preview for paid posts); null when includeContent is off

Type:string | null

Example:

Body (text)

bodyText

Optional

Readable plain text of the post with subscribe widgets removed

Type:string | null

Example:

A technician at a Siberian lab has died...

Content status

contentStatus

Optional

full, preview (paid post), not_fetched (includeContent off) or failed

Type:string | null

Example:

full

Source

source

Optional

The publication or post URL from your input that produced this row

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.astralcodexten.com

Comment ID

commentId

Optional

Substack comment id

Type:integer | null

Example:

355440418

Post URL

postUrl

Optional

URL of the commented post

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/top-forecasters-on-the-plague

Parent comment ID

parentCommentId

Optional

Id of the comment this one replies to; null for top-level comments

Type:integer | null

Example:

null

Depth

depth

Optional

0 for top-level comments, 1 for replies, …

Type:integer | null

Example:

Author name

authorName

Optional

Comment author or publication author

Type:string | null

Example:

Sasha Putilin

Author handle

authorHandle

Optional

Comment author handle

Type:string | null

Example:

psychotechnology

Author user ID

authorUserId

Optional

Substack user id of the comment author

Type:integer | null

Example:

74588887

Author photo

authorPhotoUrl

Optional

Avatar URL

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Author bestseller tier

authorBestsellerTier

Optional

Substack bestseller badge tier of the author

Type:integer | null

Example:

null

Comment body

body

Optional

Comment text

Type:string | null

Example:

Russian here! ...

Comment date

date

Optional

ISO 8601 timestamp

Type:string | null

Example:

2026-10-07T21:22:05.209Z

Edited at

editedAt

Optional

ISO 8601 timestamp of the last edit

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Replies

childrenCount

Optional

Number of direct replies

Type:integer | null

Example:

Publication ID

publicationId

Optional

Substack publication id

Type:integer | null

Example:

817132

Name

name

Optional

Publication or author name

Type:string | null

Example:

ByteByteGo Newsletter

Subdomain

subdomain

Optional

Substack subdomain

Type:string | null

Example:

bytebytego

Custom domain

customDomain

Optional

Custom domain when set

Type:string | null

Example:

blog.bytebytego.com

Host

host

Optional

Host the publication is served from

Type:string | null

Example:

blog.bytebytego.com

Tagline

tagline

Optional

Publication hero text

Type:string | null

Example:

Explain complex systems with simple terms.

Logo

logoUrl

Optional

Publication logo URL

Type:string | null

Example:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...

Free subscribers

freeSubscriberCount

Optional

Free subscriber count when exposed

Type:integer | null

Example:

null

Subscriber magnitude

freeSubscriberCountOrderOfMagnitude

Optional

Order of magnitude of the subscriber count when exposed

Type:integer | null

Example:

null

Ranking detail

rankingDetail

Optional

Substack's ranking label (e.g. "Thousands of paid subscribers")

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Tier

tier

Optional

Publication tier

Type:integer | null

Example:

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