Substack Scraper
Spider read substack.com in 115 ms without a browser and returned 99 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "You made it, you own it" and "Great discussions".
### Make money doing the work you believe inStart your SubstackLearn morewhat enjoying my rent looks like:Espresso & Brown Butter Cookie Affogato - up on Sunday 😍#### You made it, you own itYou always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.[stoop thoughts in sickness and in health](https://sydneytowle.substack.com/p/in-sickness-and-in-health)Got existential at the piercing studio for my dear friends at sex happens:[Sex Happens So there's this belly button piercing that healed my inner child](https://sexhappens.substack.com/p/so-theres-this-belly-button-piercing)#### Great discussionsJoin the most interesting and insightful discussions.AI can generate the song. It cannot generate the concert. AI can generate the itinerary. It cannot generate more August coastline. AI can draft the memo. It cannot generate the signer who bears blame. AI can simulate companionship. It cannot generate another human being whose desires are not yours. Lorenzo Bonfiglio#### Log in or sign upThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on substack.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://substack.com/browse/technology");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://substack.com/browse/technology");
const data = await page.extractFields({
postTitle: ".post-preview h3 a",
author: ".post-preview .pub-name",
subtitle: ".post-preview .post-preview-description",
date: ".post-preview .post-date",
likes: ".post-preview .like-count",
comments: ".post-preview .comment-count",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What substack.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000468 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping substack.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.