/substack_scraper

A scraper for Substack article text content

Primary LanguageRustMIT LicenseMIT

Substack Scraper

This scrapes Substack blogs for all their post content and outputs it into raw text files. This project was intended to create neural network training data.

NOTE: This project currently cannot get around subscriber-only Substack articles; it will output the truncated article text along with the subscriber message.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/ivyraine/substack_scraper
cargo run -- -w <BLOGS>

Example:

## Example:
cargo run -- -w "https://substack.thewebscraping.club/ https://etiennefd.substack.com/"

For debug messages, set envvar RUST_LOG=debug

Contributing

Feel free to open an issue or PR if you have any suggestions or improvements, but I cannot guarantee that I'll get to them! The project is small and has some documentation, so I would encourage putting up a PR if you have a feature you want to add.