📚 Substack People Scraper

A powerful scraping tool that extracts comprehensive Substack author and publication data using keywords. Get detailed insights about writers, their publications, themes, and engagement metrics to understand the newsletter ecosystem.

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Scrape Substack author profiles and user information based on keywords. Get detailed data about Substack writers, publications, and their content.

🔍 What does Substack People Scraper do?

This actor allows you to:

Search and scrape Substack author profiles using keywords
Extract detailed publication information including name, description, custom domains
Get author details like bio, photo URL, handle, and social links
Collect publication themes and styling preferences
Track subscription and membership states
Monitor community engagement settings

✨ Features

🎯 Keyword-based search targeting
📊 Comprehensive profile data extraction
🚀 High-performance scraping with Puppeteer
🛡️ Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
⚡ Parallel processing support
🔄 Automatic pagination handling
💾 Structured JSON output

💡 Use Cases

Content creator research
Newsletter market analysis
Competitor monitoring
Audience insights gathering
Publication trend tracking
Writer community mapping

📋 Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following parameters:

keywords: Array of search terms to find Substack authors
maxItems: Maximum number of results to collect

📦 Output

Results are stored in JSON format containing:

Author profile details
Publication information
Subscription data
Theme configurations
Community settings

💪 Benefits

Save hours of manual research
Get structured, ready-to-analyze data
Stay updated on Substack ecosystem
Discover new writers and publications
Track industry trends

🔒 Compliance

This actor respects Substack's robots.txt and implements reasonable delays between requests.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "sam"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 50
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "keyword": "sam",
4        "id": 294278669,
5        "name": "Samantha",
6        "handle": "clubfemboy",
7        "previous_name": "Femboy Clubhouse",
8        "photo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg",
9        "bio": "I'm a feminine boy that loves fashion, aesthetics, and femininity in the broadest sense. I started dressing ever since I was born and never looked back!",
10        "profile_set_up_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z",
11        "tos_accepted_at": null,
12        "profile_disabled": false,
13        "userLinks": [],
14        "publicationUsers": [
15            {
16                "id": 361603,
17                "user_id": 294278669,
18                "publication_id": 435931,
19                "role": "admin",
20                "public": true,
21                "is_primary": false,
22                "publication": {
23                    "id": 435931,
24                    "name": "Club Femboy",
25                    "subdomain": "clubfemboy",
26                    "custom_domain": null,
27                    "custom_domain_optional": false,
28                    "hero_text": "Where every Femboy may become their most beautiful, feminine self.",
29                    "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9f9b588-5666-41db-9fb1-815e99f1db1d_1280x1280.png",
30                    "author_id": 294278669,
31                    "theme_var_background_pop": "#EA82FF",
32                    "created_at": "2021-08-08T22:01:35.029Z",
33                    "rss_website_url": null,
34                    "email_from_name": null,
35                    "copyright": "Samantha",
36                    "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member",
37                    "community_enabled": true,
38                    "invite_only": false,
39                    "payments_state": "enabled",
40                    "language": null,
41                    "explicit": false,
42                    "is_personal_mode": false,
43                    "author": {
44                        "id": 294278669,
45                        "name": "Samantha",
46                        "handle": "clubfemboy",
47                        "previous_name": "Femboy Clubhouse",
48                        "photo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg",
49                        "bio": "I'm a feminine boy that loves fashion, aesthetics, and femininity in the broadest sense. I started dressing ever since I was born and never looked back!",
50                        "profile_set_up_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z"
51                    }
52                }
53            },
54            {
55                "id": 3523594,
56                "user_id": 294278669,
57                "publication_id": 3457346,
58                "role": "admin",
59                "public": true,
60                "is_primary": false,
61                "publication": {
62                    "id": 3457346,
63                    "name": "Femboy Clubhouse",
64                    "subdomain": "femboyclubhouse",
65                    "custom_domain": null,
66                    "custom_domain_optional": false,
67                    "hero_text": "Where every femboy can blossom into their most enchanting, uwu-tastic self~",
68                    "logo_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d36784c6-9abe-457c-bec0-ecdafb7c172d_167x167.png",
69                    "author_id": 294278669,
70                    "theme_var_background_pop": "#FF6719",
71                    "created_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:08.340Z",
72                    "rss_website_url": null,
73                    "email_from_name": null,
74                    "copyright": "Femme",
75                    "founding_plan_name": null,
76                    "community_enabled": true,
77                    "invite_only": false,
78                    "payments_state": "enabled",
79                    "language": null,
80                    "explicit": false,
81                    "is_personal_mode": false,
82                    "author": {
83                        "id": 294278669,
84                        "name": "Samantha",
85                        "handle": "clubfemboy",
86                        "previous_name": "Femboy Clubhouse",
87                        "photo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg",
88                        "bio": "I'm a feminine boy that loves fashion, aesthetics, and femininity in the broadest sense. I started dressing ever since I was born and never looked back!",
89                        "profile_set_up_at": "2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z"
90                    }
91                }
92            }
93        ],
94        "subscriptions": [
95            {
96                "user_id": 294278669,
97                "id": 635974553,
98                "visibility": "public",
99                "membership_state": "free_signup",
100                "type": null,
101                "is_founding": false,
102                "email_settings": {
103                    "2474": "individual",
104                    "2519": "individual",
105                    "2520": "individual",
106                    "22019": "individual",
107                    "39917": "individual"
108                },
109                "section_podcasts_enabled": [
110                    2520,
111                    39917,
112                    22019,
113                    2474,
114                    2519
115                ],
116                "publication": {
117                    "id": 1,
118                    "name": "On Substack",
119                    "subdomain": "on",
120                    "custom_domain": null,
121                    "custom_domain_optional": false,
122                    "hero_text": "Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack. ",
123                    "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba81cfff-7bc5-4aef-866e-864d0942c42d_1000x1000.png",
124                    "author_id": 41856304,
125                    "theme_var_background_pop": "#FF6719",
126                    "created_at": "2017-12-12T04:37:34.302Z",
127                    "rss_website_url": null,
128                    "email_from_name": "Substack",
129                    "copyright": "Substack",
130                    "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member",
131                    "community_enabled": true,
132                    "invite_only": false,
133                    "payments_state": "disabled",
134                    "language": null,
135                    "explicit": false,
136                    "is_personal_mode": false,
137                    "author": {
138                        "id": 41856304,
139                        "name": "Substack Team",
140                        "handle": "substackteam",
141                        "previous_name": "Substack Writers",
142                        "photo_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0cc9b93-5469-46f3-b2c9-ee0392b93a64_1000x1000.png",
143                        "bio": "Resources, news, and stories for @Substack writers and creators.",
144                        "profile_set_up_at": "2022-06-16T19:10:43.399Z"
145                    },
146                    "theme": {
147                        "publication_id": 1,
148                        "background_pop_color": "#FF7731",
149                        "cover_bg_color": "#ffffff",
150                        "color_links": null,
151                        "web_bg_color": "#ffffff",
152                        "home_posts": "custom",
153                        "font_preset_heading": "fancy_serif",
154                        "font_preset_body": "fancy_serif",
155                        "font_family_headings": null,
156                        "font_family_body": null,
157                        "font_size_body_desktop": null,
158                        "font_family_ui": null,
159                        "print_secondary": null,
160                        "custom_css_web": null,
161                        "custom_css_email": null,
162                        "default_post_header_variant": null
163                    }
164                }
165            }
166        ],
167        "subscriptionsTruncated": false,
168        "hasGuestPost": false,
169        "primaryPublication": {
170            "id": 435931,
171            "subdomain": "clubfemboy",
172            "custom_domain_optional": false,
173            "name": "Club Femboy",
174            "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9f9b588-5666-41db-9fb1-815e99f1db1d_1280x1280.png",
175            "author_id": 294278669,
176            "user_id": 294278669,
177            "handles_enabled": false,
178            "explicit": false,
179            "is_personal_mode": false
180        },
181        "max_pub_tier": 2,
182        "hasActivity": true,
183        "hasLikes": true,
184        "lists": [],
185        "rough_num_free_subscribers_int": 10000,
186        "rough_num_free_subscribers": "Tens of thousands",
187        "bestseller_badge_disabled": false,
188        "bestseller_tier": null,
189        "subscriberCountString": "24K+ subscribers",
190        "subscriberCount": "24K+",
191        "subscriberCountNumber": 24000,
192        "hasHiddenPublicationUsers": false,
193        "visibleSubscriptionsCount": 1,
194        "slug": "samantha",
195        "previousSlug": "femboy-clubhouse",
196        "isSubscribed": false,
197        "isFollowing": false,
198        "followsViewer": false,
199        "scrapedAt": "2025-02-10T05:12:00.935Z"
200    },
201    ...
202]

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is it legal to scrape job listings or public data?

Yes, if you're scraping publicly available data for personal or internal use. Always review Websute's Terms of Service before large-scale use or redistribution.

Do I need to code to use this scraper?

No. This is a no-code tool — just enter a job title, location, and run the scraper directly from your dashboard or Apify actor page.

What data does it extract?

It extracts job titles, companies, salaries (if available), descriptions, locations, and post dates. You can export all of it to Excel or JSON.

Can I scrape multiple pages or filter by location?

Yes, you can scrape multiple pages and refine by job title, location, keyword, or more depending on the input settings you use.

How do I get started?

You can use the Try Now button on this page to go to the scraper. You’ll be guided to input a search term and get structured results. No setup needed!