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Substack Scraper

Extract newsletter posts, subscriber metrics, author bios, and publication directories from Substack. Built on spider-browser .

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target
substack.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/substack.com/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/substack.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://substack.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "post_title": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "subtitle": "string",
    "date": "string",
    "likes": "string",
    "comments": "string",
    "publication": "string",
    "preview_text": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from substack.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

substack-scraper.ts
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 to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Post titleAuthorSubtitleDateLikesCommentsPublicationPreview text
Stealth

Platform bypass

Residential proxies and fingerprint rotation for substack.com access.

Rendering

SPA rendering

Full JavaScript execution for React-based feeds and dynamic content.

Data

Profile & post data

Extract public profiles, posts, engagement metrics, and connections.

Related

More Social scrapers.

Start

Start scraping substack.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.