API Direct

Substack Post Likes

GET /v1/substack/post/likes

Get the people who liked a Substack post. Returns up to 100 profiles with display name, user ID, profile picture, bestseller tier and primary publication, plus the post's total like count.

Cost

$0.003 per request

Free tier

50 requests/month

Parameters

url

Post URL, e.g. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit (max 500 characters). Provide url, post_id, or publication and slug.

post_id

Numeric post ID, as returned in post_id. Provide url, post_id, or publication and slug.

publication

Publication subdomain, host or URL, used together with slug.

slug

Post URL slug, e.g. all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit, used together with publication.

Example Request

curl "https://apidirect.io/v1/substack/post/likes?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lennysnewsletter.com%2Fp%2Fall-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit"   -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://apidirect.io/v1/substack/post/likes",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={"url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit"}
)
print(response.json())

Example Response

{
  "count": 100,
  "likes": [
    {
      "bestseller_tier": 0,
      "full_name": "Christopher L Ross",
      "is_bestseller": false,
      "primary_publication": {
        "logo_url": "",
        "name": "Christopher L Ross",
        "publication_id": "8445348",
        "subdomain": "christopherlross782652",
        "url": "https://christopherlross782652.substack.com"
      },
      "profile_pic_url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/795aab44-1e19-40ff-a4f3-14d22be4346f_144x144.png",
      "url": "https://substack.com/profile/106335682",
      "user_id": "106335682"
    }
  ],
  "post_id": "215694124",
  "post_url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/all-of-the-lenny-and-friends-summit",
  "total": 285
}

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