📚 Substack People Scraper

Pricing

Rating

Developer

Actor stats

Categories

Share

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.

{
"keywords":[
"sam"
],
"maxItems":50
}

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.

[
{
"keyword":"sam",
"id":294278669,
"name":"Samantha",
"handle":"clubfemboy",
"previous_name":"Femboy Clubhouse",
"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg",
"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!",
"profile_set_up_at":"2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z",
"tos_accepted_at":null,
"profile_disabled":false,
"userLinks":[],
"publicationUsers":[
{
"id":361603,
"user_id":294278669,
"publication_id":435931,
"role":"admin",
"public":true,
"is_primary":false,
"publication":{
"id":435931,
"name":"Club Femboy",
"subdomain":"clubfemboy",
"custom_domain":null,
"custom_domain_optional":false,
"hero_text":"Where every Femboy may become their most beautiful, feminine self.",
"logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9f9b588-5666-41db-9fb1-815e99f1db1d_1280x1280.png",
"author_id":294278669,
"theme_var_background_pop":"#EA82FF",
"created_at":"2021-08-08T22:01:35.029Z",
"rss_website_url":null,
"email_from_name":null,
"copyright":"Samantha",
"founding_plan_name":"Founding Member",
"community_enabled":true,
"invite_only":false,
"payments_state":"enabled",
"language":null,
"explicit":false,
"is_personal_mode":false,
"author":{
"id":294278669,
"name":"Samantha",
"handle":"clubfemboy",
"previous_name":"Femboy Clubhouse",
"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg",
"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!",
"profile_set_up_at":"2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z"
}
}
},
{
"id":3523594,
"user_id":294278669,
"publication_id":3457346,
"role":"admin",
"public":true,
"is_primary":false,
"publication":{
"id":3457346,
"name":"Femboy Clubhouse",
"subdomain":"femboyclubhouse",
"custom_domain":null,
"custom_domain_optional":false,
"hero_text":"Where every femboy can blossom into their most enchanting, uwu-tastic self~",
"logo_url":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d36784c6-9abe-457c-bec0-ecdafb7c172d_167x167.png",
"author_id":294278669,
"theme_var_background_pop":"#FF6719",
"created_at":"2024-12-03T16:48:08.340Z",
"rss_website_url":null,
"email_from_name":null,
"copyright":"Femme",
"founding_plan_name":null,
"community_enabled":true,
"invite_only":false,
"payments_state":"enabled",
"language":null,
"explicit":false,
"is_personal_mode":false,
"author":{
"id":294278669,
"name":"Samantha",
"handle":"clubfemboy",
"previous_name":"Femboy Clubhouse",
"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e3cbea1-09a6-47a2-849b-4f24598bf777_1224x1224.jpeg",
"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!",
"profile_set_up_at":"2024-12-03T16:48:05.365Z"
}
}
}
],
"subscriptions":[
{
"user_id":294278669,
"id":635974553,
"visibility":"public",
"membership_state":"free_signup",
"type":null,
"is_founding":false,
"email_settings":{
"2474":"individual",
"2519":"individual",
"2520":"individual",
"22019":"individual",
"39917":"individual"
},
"section_podcasts_enabled":[
2520,
39917,
22019,
2474,
2519
],
"publication":{
"id":1,
"name":"On Substack",
"subdomain":"on",
"custom_domain":null,
"custom_domain_optional":false,
"hero_text":"Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack. ",
"logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba81cfff-7bc5-4aef-866e-864d0942c42d_1000x1000.png",
"author_id":41856304,
"theme_var_background_pop":"#FF6719",
"created_at":"2017-12-12T04:37:34.302Z",
"rss_website_url":null,
"email_from_name":"Substack",
"copyright":"Substack",
"founding_plan_name":"Founding Member",
"community_enabled":true,
"invite_only":false,
"payments_state":"disabled",
"language":null,
"explicit":false,
"is_personal_mode":false,
"author":{
"id":41856304,
"name":"Substack Team",
"handle":"substackteam",
"previous_name":"Substack Writers",
"photo_url":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0cc9b93-5469-46f3-b2c9-ee0392b93a64_1000x1000.png",
"bio":"Resources, news, and stories for @Substack writers and creators.",
"profile_set_up_at":"2022-06-16T19:10:43.399Z"
},
"theme":{
"publication_id":1,
"background_pop_color":"#FF7731",
"cover_bg_color":"#ffffff",
"color_links":null,
"web_bg_color":"#ffffff",
"home_posts":"custom",
"font_preset_heading":"fancy_serif",
"font_preset_body":"fancy_serif",
"font_family_headings":null,
"font_family_body":null,
"font_size_body_desktop":null,
"font_family_ui":null,
"print_secondary":null,
"custom_css_web":null,
"custom_css_email":null,
"default_post_header_variant":null
}
}
}
],
"subscriptionsTruncated":false,
"hasGuestPost":false,
"primaryPublication":{
"id":435931,
"subdomain":"clubfemboy",
"custom_domain_optional":false,
"name":"Club Femboy",
"logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9f9b588-5666-41db-9fb1-815e99f1db1d_1280x1280.png",
"author_id":294278669,
"user_id":294278669,
"handles_enabled":false,
"explicit":false,
"is_personal_mode":false
},
"max_pub_tier":2,
"hasActivity":true,
"hasLikes":true,
"lists":[],
"rough_num_free_subscribers_int":10000,
"rough_num_free_subscribers":"Tens of thousands",
"bestseller_badge_disabled":false,
"bestseller_tier":null,
"subscriberCountString":"24K+ subscribers",
"subscriberCount":"24K+",
"subscriberCountNumber":24000,
"hasHiddenPublicationUsers":false,
"visibleSubscriptionsCount":1,
"slug":"samantha",
"previousSlug":"femboy-clubhouse",
"isSubscribed":false,
"isFollowing":false,
"followsViewer":false,
"scrapedAt":"2025-02-10T05:12:00.935Z"
},
 ...
]

Related Actors

• 📚 Substack Posts Scraper - Extract comprehensive post data including titles, authors, and engagement metrics from Substack
• 📚 Substack Publications Scraper - Get detailed newsletter and publication information from Substack search results
• 🔍 Substack Notes Scraper - Extract notes and comments with user info and engagement metrics from Substack
• 📊 Substack Leaderboard Scraper - Scrape top performing newsletters data from Substack leaderboards
• 📄 Article Content Extractor - Extract clean article content and metadata from any web page
• 🔍 Medium User Search Scraper - Find and extract detailed Medium user profiles from search results
• 📝 Medium Posts Search Scraper - Get comprehensive article data from Medium's search results
• 📚 Medium User Posts Scraper - Extract detailed post data from Medium user profiles
• 👥 Medium Following Scraper - Get information about Medium users' following lists
• 👥 Medium Followers Scraper - Extract Medium user followers data and profile details
• 📚 Goodreads Book Scraper - Get comprehensive book and author data from Goodreads
• 📚 Goodreads Review Scraper - Extract detailed book reviews and ratings from Goodreads
• 🎯 Twitter Email Scraper - Find Twitter users and their email addresses based on keywords
• 📧 Discover & Verify Professional Emails - Find and verify professional email addresses with smart pattern generation
• 🔍 Google News Scraper - Collect up to 5000 news articles with flexible search options