Substack Newsletter Scraper: Posts, Full Text & Leaderboards
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from $8.00 / 1,000 posts
Scrape any Substack newsletter: posts with full text in Markdown, likes, comments, authors and paywall status, plus newsletter profiles with subscription prices and category leaderboards. No login needed.
You can access the Substack Newsletter Scraper: Posts, Full Text & Leaderboards programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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