Substack Leaderboards Scraper 📈📥 - Cheap

🏆 Substack Leaderboards Scraper 📈📥 The Substack Leaderboards Scraper is your ultimate tool for extracting structured data from the Substack discovery pages, such as the ## 🔍 What It Does Point it at a leaderboard URL (like /browse/business) and get: ✅ Clean, structured data on top Substack publications ✅ Full author metadata: name, handle, photo, bio, social links ✅ Embedded publication info: domain, title, and creation dates ✅ Data you can use for analytics, outreach, rankings, or dashboards ✅ Ready-to-use JSON for CRM enrichment or market research 📄 Output Fields | Field | Description | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | id | Unique user ID on Substack | | name | Name of the creator | | handle | Substack handle (e.g. @honest-broker) | | previous_name | Previous display name if changed | | photo_url | Profile photo URL | | bio | Author bio | | profile_set_up_at | When the profile was created (ISO timestamp) | | reader_installed_at | When the user installed the reader (if available) | | publicationUsers | Array of publication-user relationships and roles | | twitter_screen_name | Twitter/X handle | | is_guest | Boolean — is this user a guest contributor? | | bestseller_tier | Bestseller status (e.g. top writer tier) | | status | Object containing status info like subscriberTier, badge, etc. | | primary_publication | Object with full publication data (domain, logo, payments, etc.) | ## 🛠 How to Use the Scraper 📥 Provide the leaderboard URL you want to scrape (e.g. /browse/business) 🔢 Optionally define the maximum number of items to extract 🚀 Run the scraper and get structured leaderboard data in JSON format! ## 💰 Pricing This scraper uses a pay-per-month model. 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Setting a higher maxitems value won’t return more results if the source page is limited. ## Output { "id": 4937458, "name": "Ted Gioia", "handle": "tedgioia", "previous_name": "N/A", "photo_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67f10f9b-75d1-4b43-ba5e-96eb435dd4f5_400x400.jpeg", "bio": "Ted Gioia is author of The Honest Broker on Substack (https://www.honest-broker.com)—a frank and opinionated guide to music, books, media, and culture. He is author of 12 books, and previously served on the faculty at Stanford.", "profile_set_up_at": "2021-05-13T16:07:28.353Z", "reader_installed_at": "2022-02-18T23:17:14.231Z", "publicationUsers": [ { "id": 84674, "user_id": 4937458, "publication_id": 296132, "role": "admin", "public": true, "is_primary": true, "publication": { "id": 296132, "name": "The Honest Broker", "subdomain": "tedgioia", "custom_domain": "www.honest-broker.com", "custom_domain_optional": false, "hero_text": "A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia", "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b9b1c6d-1d25-4039-8b7e-dd5f2858bdee_600x600.png", "author_id": 4937458, "primary_user_id": 4937458, "theme_var_background_pop": "#45D800", "created_at": "2021-02-24T05:12:42.216Z", "email_from_name": "Ted Gioia ", "copyright": "Ted Gioia", "founding_plan_name": "Founding Member", "community_enabled": true, "invite_only": false, "payments_state": "enabled", "language": "N/A", "explicit": false, "homepage_type": "N/A", "is_personal_mode": false } } ], "twitter_screen_name": "tedgioia", "is_guest": false, "bestseller_tier": "N/A", "status": { "bestsellerTier": "N/A", "subscriberTier": 10, "leaderboard": "N/A", "vip": false, "badge": { "type": "subscriber", "tier": 10, "accent_colors": "N/A" } }, "primary_publication": { "id": 296132, "subdomain": "tedgioia", "custom_domain": "www.honest-broker.com", "custom_domain_optional": false, "name": "The Honest Broker", "logo_url": "https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b9b1c6d-1d25-4039-8b7e-dd5f2858bdee_600x600.png", "author_id": 4937458, "user_id": 4937458, "handles_enabled": false, "explicit": false, "is_personal_mode": false, "payments_state": "enabled", "pledges_enabled": false } } ## 📫 Support 😊 Leave us a star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ if you are satisfied with the product! 🌍 For any questions, specific needs or issues, please reach out through Apify's platform or via email - Storm_Scraper 🌪️🌩️