Substack Leaderboards Scraper 📈📥 - Cheap

🏆 Substack Leaderboards Scraper 📈📥

The Substack Leaderboards Scraper is your ultimate tool for extracting structured data from the Substack discovery pages, such as the

🔍 What It Does

Point it at a leaderboard URL (like /browse/business) and get:

✅ Clean, structured data on top Substack publications ✅ Full author metadata: name, handle, photo, bio, social links ✅ Embedded publication info: domain, title, and creation dates ✅ Data you can use for analytics, outreach, rankings, or dashboards ✅ Ready-to-use JSON for CRM enrichment or market research

📄 Output Fields

Field	Description
id	Unique user ID on Substack
name	Name of the creator
handle	Substack handle (e.g. @honest-broker)
previous_name	Previous display name if changed
photo_url	Profile photo URL
bio	Author bio
profile_set_up_at	When the profile was created (ISO timestamp)
reader_installed_at	When the user installed the reader (if available)
publicationUsers	Array of publication-user relationships and roles
twitter_screen_name	Twitter/X handle
is_guest	Boolean — is this user a guest contributor?
bestseller_tier	Bestseller status (e.g. top writer tier)
status	Object containing status info like subscriberTier, badge, etc.
primary_publication	Object with full publication data (domain, logo, payments, etc.)

🛠 How to Use the Scraper

📥 Provide the leaderboard URL you want to scrape (e.g. /browse/business)

🔢 Optionally define the maximum number of items to extract

🚀 Run the scraper and get structured leaderboard data in JSON format!

💰 Pricing

This scraper uses a pay-per-month model. You’re only charged for successful results.

• Price: $19.49 per month.

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💡 Use Cases

📈 Market Research — Identify the top Substack publications in your niche

🧩 Lead Generation — Collect high-quality contacts in newsletter ecosystems

📊 Competitive Analysis — Monitor growth and positioning of creators

🔍 Influencer Discovery — Spot rising voices and high-engagement writers

📬 CRM Enrichment — Add detailed Substack profile data to your contacts

📥 Input Schema

Input example :

{
  "url": "https://substack.com/browse/business",
  "maxitems": 30
}

Input Fields:

Field	Type	Description
url	string	📍 Full URL of the leaderboard (e.g. /browse/business)
maxitems	integer	🔢 Maximum number of publications to extract

⚠️ Note: Substack leaderboards typically list between 30 and 40 items, depending on the category. Setting a higher maxitems value won’t return more results if the source page is limited.

Output

{
        "id": 4937458,
        "name": "Ted Gioia",
        "handle": "tedgioia",
        "previous_name": "N/A",
        "photo_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67f10f9b-75d1-4b43-ba5e-96eb435dd4f5_400x400.jpeg",
        "bio": "Ted Gioia is author of The Honest Broker on Substack (https://www.honest-broker.com)—a frank and opinionated guide to music, books, media, and culture. He is author of 12 books, and previously served on the faculty at Stanford.",
        "profile_set_up_at": "2021-05-13T16:07:28.353Z",
        "reader_installed_at": "2022-02-18T23:17:14.231Z",
        "publicationUsers": [
            {
                "id": 84674,
                "user_id": 4937458,
                "publication_id": 296132,
                "role": "admin",
                "public": true,
                "is_primary": true,
                "publication": {
                    "id": 296132,
                    "name": "The Honest Broker",
                    "subdomain": "tedgioia",
                    "custom_domain": "www.honest-broker.com",
                    "custom_domain_optional": false,
                    "hero_text": "A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia",
                    "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b9b1c6d-1d25-4039-8b7e-dd5f2858bdee_600x600.png",
                    "author_id": 4937458,
                    "primary_user_id": 4937458,
                    "theme_var_background_pop": "#45D800",
                    "created_at": "2021-02-24T05:12:42.216Z",
                    "email_from_name": "Ted Gioia ",
                    "copyright": "Ted Gioia",
                    "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member",
                    "community_enabled": true,
                    "invite_only": false,
                    "payments_state": "enabled",
                    "language": "N/A",
                    "explicit": false,
                    "homepage_type": "N/A",
                    "is_personal_mode": false
                }
            }
        ],
        "twitter_screen_name": "tedgioia",
        "is_guest": false,
        "bestseller_tier": "N/A",
        "status": {
            "bestsellerTier": "N/A",
            "subscriberTier": 10,
            "leaderboard": "N/A",
            "vip": false,
            "badge": {
                "type": "subscriber",
                "tier": 10,
                "accent_colors": "N/A"
            }
        },
        "primary_publication": {
            "id": 296132,
            "subdomain": "tedgioia",
            "custom_domain": "www.honest-broker.com",
            "custom_domain_optional": false,
            "name": "The Honest Broker",
            "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b9b1c6d-1d25-4039-8b7e-dd5f2858bdee_600x600.png",
            "author_id": 4937458,
            "user_id": 4937458,
            "handles_enabled": false,
            "explicit": false,
            "is_personal_mode": false,
            "payments_state": "enabled",
            "pledges_enabled": false
        }
    }

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