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Submission Grinder Literary Market Scraper
Scrape The Submission Grinder — the leading free literary market database. Extracts market name, genre, pay rate, response-time averages, and acceptance rates for 6,000+ fiction, poetry, and nonfiction markets. Community-sourced stats unavailable anywhere else for free.
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Scrape The Submission Grinder — the leading free literary market database for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writers. Extracts market name, genres, pay rate, response-time averages, acceptance rates, and submission guidelines for 6,000+ markets.
The Submission Grinder is the primary free alternative to Duotrope. Its community-sourced response-time and acceptance-rate statistics are not available from any other free source. Market list browsing is login-gated, but individual market detail pages (/Market/Index/<id>) are fully public — this scraper enumerates them by ID to collect the complete database.
What you get
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
market_id | Numeric market ID |
market_name | Publication or market name |
market_type | fiction / poetry / nonfiction |
genres | Genres accepted (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literary, etc.) |
pay_rate | Pay per word or per piece (e.g., "14 cents/word", "$69.50/piece") |
response_time_avg_days | Community-reported average response time in days |
acceptance_rate | Acceptance percentage with average days (e.g., "1.49% - avg 33 days") |
submission_url | URL to the market's submission guidelines page |
guidelines_summary | First 500 characters of the market's self-provided description |
simultaneous_submissions | Whether simultaneous submissions are allowed |
reprints_accepted | Whether reprints are accepted (when listed) |
status | open / temporarily_closed / closed / disqualified |
source_url | Source URL on The Submission Grinder |
Use cases
- Build a searchable literary market database
- Filter markets by genre, pay tier, or acceptance rate
- Track response time trends across fiction magazines
- Power submission-tracking tools for writers
- Research SFWA-qualifying or pro-rate markets
Input
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
startId | integer | 1 | First market ID to crawl (inclusive) |
endId | integer | 25000 | Last market ID to crawl (inclusive) |
maxItems | integer | — | Cap the total number of records scraped |
Markets with IDs outside the active range return empty pages and are silently skipped. To scrape the full database, use startId: 1, endId: 25000, and omit maxItems.
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Pricing
Charged per market record scraped. Uses the standard pay-per-event model — you only pay for data you receive.
Notes
- Market IDs are sequential integers. Some IDs in the range may be unused or point to disqualified markets — these emit a minimal record with
status: "disqualified"or are skipped entirely if the page has no market data. - Response statistics are community-reported and reflect the aggregate of all user-logged submissions over the past 12 months.
- The scraper respects the site's public/private boundary: only the public
Market/Index/<id>pages are crawled. Browse, search, and account pages are never accessed.
