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Scrape Substack publications: titles, subtitles, authors, dates, reactions, comment counts, and full post content. Keyword search across any newsletter.

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Substack Scraper — Posts, Authors & Search

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Scrape any public Substack publication through its own JSON API — no browser, no login. Pull post listings with titles, authors, dates, and engagement, optionally expand to full post content, or keyword-search a publication's archive.

Use it for newsletter research, content monitoring, competitive analysis, and building post datasets for AI workflows.

Why this Actor

Official public API: uses api/v1/archive and api/v1/posts/{slug} — fast, stable, and cheap (~$0.0003/run).
Full post content: set includeContent to get rendered post bodies, not just metadata.
Keyword search: search queries the publication's own search index.
Publication context on every row: newsletter name, subdomain, and description.
Sorting and limits: newest/oldest ordering plus maxPosts to bound runs.

Quick start

{
  "publicationUrls": ["https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com"],
  "maxPosts": 20,
  "includeContent": false
}

Search a publication:

{
  "publicationUrls": ["https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com"],
  "search": "hiring",
  "maxPosts": 10
}

Input

Field	Required	Description
`publicationUrls`	Yes	Substack publication URLs or subdomains.
`search`	No	Keyword to search within each publication's archive.
`maxPosts`	No	Max posts per publication. Default: 50.
`includeContent`	No	Fetch full post body per post (one extra request each). Default: `false`.
`sort`	No	`new` or `top` ordering where supported.

Output

Field	Description
`title`, `subtitle`, `slug`, `url`	Post identity and link.
`author`	Post author name.
`postDate`	Publication timestamp.
`description`	Post excerpt/social description.
`reactions`, `commentCount`	Engagement counts.
`coverImage`, `podcastUrl`	Media assets when present.
`publication`	Newsletter name/subdomain.
`type`	`post` or `search_result`.
`body`	Full post content when `includeContent` is set.

Notes & limitations

Private/paid posts return metadata only — paywalled bodies aren't fetched.
Custom-domain publications are supported; the Actor resolves the underlying Substack API host automatically.

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