Substack Details API
API health
- 24h health
- Normal
- 24h average time
- —
- Last checked
- September 26, 2026 at 18:04 (UTC)
- Healthy / normal
- Available
- Limited
- Mostly down
Last 24 hours
Last 30 days
How health is measured
- Health = the share of calls that returned data, in percent. Empty results, failures and unknown outcomes do not count as returning data.
- Levels: 90% and above is healthy, 70% and above is available, 40% and above is limited; anything lower is mostly down.
- A period (the last 24 hours, one hour or one day) gets a score only once it has at least 50 calls. Periods with fewer calls show as normal: a few failures among a handful of calls do not mean the API is down.
- Calls include real customer calls and our own daily probe calls. Request errors (wrong parameters, no balance) are excluded.
- Average time counts only calls that completed normally: response time for sync calls, acceptance to completion for async ones.
By period
| Time (UTC) | Status | Health | Average time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 18:00 - 18:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 17:00 - 17:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 16:00 - 16:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 15:00 - 15:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 14:00 - 14:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 13:00 - 13:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 12:00 - 12:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 11:00 - 11:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 10:00 - 10:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 09:00 - 09:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 08:00 - 08:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 07:00 - 07:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 06:00 - 06:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 05:00 - 05:59 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-26 02:00 - 02:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 01:00 - 01:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 00:00 - 00:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 23:00 - 23:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 22:00 - 22:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 21:00 - 21:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 20:00 - 20:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-25 19:00 - 19:59 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-26 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-24 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-23 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-21 | Normal | — | — |
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| 2026-09-12 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-11 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-10 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-09 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-08 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-07 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-06 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-05 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-04 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-03 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-02 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-09-01 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-31 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-30 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-29 | Normal | — | — |
| 2026-08-28 | Normal | — | — |
Retrieve public profile details from Substack. Accepts these parameters: username. Returns these fields: twitter_username, bio, username, and publications.
Price $1.39 per 1,000 requests ($0.001389 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.
Request parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Authorization | header | string | Yes | - | Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository. |
platform | body | string | Yes | substack | Platform identifier, fixed value. |
action | body | string | Yes | profile | Capability identifier, fixed value. |
username | body.params | Not declared | Yes | - | Specifies the target creator handle for profile or notes, accepted as a plain handle (with optional @ prefix) or a full substack.com/@user link. The notes action fetches short creator updates rather than long-form publication posts. |
Code samples
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"platform": "substack",
"action": "profile",
"params": {
"username": "astralcodexten"
}
}'[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.
Response example
Captured September 26, 2026 at 08:56 (UTC) by calling this API with the parameters in the code sample above. results and count are that call's real response with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed. id, billing and quota differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.
{
"id": "req_…",
"platform": "substack",
"action": "profile",
"results": {
"user_id": "(已隐去)",
"username": "astralcodexten",
"display_name": "(已隐去)",
"avatar_url": "https://substackcdn.com/(已隐去)",
"platform": "substack",
"publications": [
{
"name": "Astral Codex Ten",
"handle": "astralcodexten",
"url": "https://astralcodexten.substack.com",
"role": "admin"
},
{
"name": "AI Futures Project",
"handle": "(已隐去)",
"url": "https://aifutures1.substack.com",
"role": "admin"
}
]
},
"billing": { … },
"quota": { … }
}Response fields
Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the source does not provide are never made up.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
user_id | User's unique ID on the source platform. |
username | Username (@handle). |
display_name | Display name; can differ from username. |
bio | Profile bio written by the account; may contain line breaks and emoji. |
avatar_url | Avatar image link. Some platforms return sized CDN links that can expire. |
twitter_username | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |
publications | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
Errors and billing
- 401
- Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
- 422
- Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
- 402
- Insufficient balance. Top up first.
- 429
- Per-minute request limit reached. Wait for Retry-After and try again.
- 503
- Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
- 200 empty
- The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).
Official references
Used only to check objects and terms. They do not imply authorization or endorsement of EveryInfra by the platform.
- Substack: Author Handles, Display Names, and Public Profiles ↗
A unique Substack handle forms the author profile URL, while display names and bios can be edited independently. This page distinguishes username from display_name accordingly, and does not claim the ability to read hidden subscriptions or liking activity.
Checked 2026-09-04