Apify Substack Scraper

# Substack Scraper

Scrape Substack newsletters using an Apify Actor via the REST API.

Actor ID `BULaGFURBV7WG3K81`

Prerequisites - `APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable must be set - `curl` and `jq` must be available

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm parameters with user Ask what they want to scrape. Supported input fields: - `urls` (array of strings) - Substack publication URLs to scrape - `maxArticles` (integer) - max articles per publication - `includeContent` (boolean) - include full article text

Step 2: Run the Actor ```bash RESULT=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/BULaGFURBV7WG3K81/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"urls": ["https://example.substack.com"], "maxArticles": 20}') echo "$RESULT" | jq '.' ```

Step 3: Poll and fetch (if async) ```bash RUN_ID=$(curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/BULaGFURBV7WG3K81/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"urls": ["https://example.substack.com"], "maxArticles": 100}' | jq -r '.data.id') curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" | jq -r '.data.status' curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID/dataset/items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" | jq '.' ```

Step 4: Present results Summarize articles: titles, authors, dates, engagement. Offer JSON/CSV export.

Error Handling - If APIFY_TOKEN not set: `export APIFY_TOKEN=your_token` - If run FAILS: check log endpoint