Scrape Substack Newsletters and Author Pages
Use our Scrape Substack to pull headlines, bylines, timestamps, section tags, and dek summaries from Substack article pages in one API call. Structured JSON or rendered HTML, whichever fits your pipeline.
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What Developers Pull from Substack
Substack scrapers tend to do one of three jobs: tracking publication output, gathering author bios and tier pricing, and pulling posting cadence data.
Track publication output
Monitor posts, paid-content frequency, and author profile data across the Substack publications you follow. Public publication-level signals only, no subscriber data.
Gather author bios
Pull Substack author bios, post counts, subscriber tier pricing, and publication category. Feeds creator-economy research workflows.
Fetch publication dates
Pull Substack publication dates, posting cadence, and free-vs-paid split per publication. Useful for content-velocity and editorial-research workflows.
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How it works
Manually collecting data from Substack is slow, limited and hard to scale. That's why more and more teams choose our API.
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Install our Python SDK (or Node, Go, PHP, Ruby - pick your stack). Each Substack scrape becomes a single function call. No proxy rotation, no headless Chrome to manage.
Pass any Substack URL to our endpoint along with your API key. We handle the page rendering and bot bypass, you receive parsed HTML or structured JSON.
When Substack pages need more, gain advanced parameters. render_js for JavaScript, stealth_proxy for CAPTCHAs, country_code for geo-targeting, ai_extract_rules for natural-language data extraction.
Substack Scraper - From URL to Structured Substack Data
Pull Substack publication and post pages at scale. Headline, byline, post date, dek summary, section tags, author bio, and subscriber tier pricing all parse in one call.
Send a natural-language spec via ai_extract_rules and get structured JSON of Substack posts and author pages back, no selectors required.
AI Web Scraping
Capture Substack visuals instantly. Useful for visual verification.
Screenshot Scraper
Pull Substack publication references from Google SERPs with our Google Search API. Useful for tracking Substack discovery and topical-search visibility.
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Click, scroll, wait for dynamic content to appear, or just run some custom JavaScript code. Our JavaScript scenarios simulate real user behavior.
JavaScript Scraper
Pull Substack posts as clean Markdown, ready to feed into an LLM for newsletter-summary or creator-research workflows.
Data Scraping Tool
Scrape Substack by automating publication-monitoring workflows with n8n and our API. No scraper code required.
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Data Fields Available on Substack
Every Substack post or publication page returns headline, byline, post date, dek summary, section tags, author bio, and subscriber tier pricing.
Setup in Under Five Minutes
Code samples in every major language: Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Go, cURL. Plus a request builder in the dashboard for testing without writing code.
DocumentationTurn Substack Pages Into Queryable Data
Hand us a Substack URL. We render, parse, and return headline, byline, post date, dek summary, section tags, and author bio, no HTML parsing on your side.
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CAPTCHA bypass capacity
We handle proxy rotation to avoid IP-based blocking. With headless browser rendering, we mimic real user browsing behaviour and reduce the blocking risk.
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The platform scales smoothly with thousands of headless browsers and rotating proxies, ensuring fast, reliable performance even during traffic spikes.
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We deliver fast, reliable results in 1-5 seconds with high accuracy across most sites, even JavaScript-heavy ones.
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