Substack Publications & Newsletters Scraper
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from $12.75 / 1,000 results
Substack Publications & Newsletters Scraper
Scrape Substack category leaderboards for ranked publications and newsletters with author, category, leaderboard rank, bestseller tier, paid status, subscriber signal, subscription pricing, description, socials and links. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.
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Pull ranked Substack publications and newsletters straight from the category leaderboards. Get the publication name, author, category, leaderboard rank, bestseller tier, paid status, subscriber signal, subscription pricing, description, socials and links as clean structured data for creator research, media intelligence and lead generation.
📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples
| Ranked leaderboards by category | Author + socials bestseller tier & pricing | JSON / CSV / Excel output formats |
Who is it for
| Use case | Who benefits |
|---|---|
| Creator research | Analysts mapping the top newsletters in a niche |
| Media intelligence | Teams tracking who is winning attention by category |
| Lead generation | Sponsors and tools finding creators to reach out to |
| Market sizing | Investors gauging paid vs free and pricing across a vertical |
How to use it
- Add one or more categories (for example
technology,business,finance,crypto,news). - Set Max Publications To Scrape and run.
- Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it through the Apify API.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which categories can I use?
Any Substack leaderboard category slug, such as technology, business, finance, crypto, culture, news, health, sports, us-politics, music, science and more. Add several in one run.
What is the bestseller tier? It is Substack's badge that reflects how many paid subscribers a publication has crossed. A higher tier signals a larger paying audience.
Do I get subscriber counts?
You get the public subscriber signal Substack exposes (an order-of-magnitude estimate like 233K+) plus the leaderboard rank, which together indicate reach and momentum.
Are empty runs charged? No. You are only charged for real publication records. A run that returns nothing is not billed.
How fresh is the data? Leaderboards are read live at run time, so each record reflects the ranking at the moment of the run (see observedAt).
Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)
Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.
For AI agents: this Actor is available on x402, Apify's agentic payment standard built with Coinbase. An AI agent can discover, pay for and run it on its own with a funded wallet and a single HTTP request: no account, no subscription, no API key and no human in the loop. It also runs as an MCP tool inside Claude, Cursor and other AI clients out of the box. Learn more about x402 agentic payments on Apify.
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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with Substack. It only accesses publicly available publication data. Use the results in accordance with the source's terms.
