Substack Trending Posts

curl "https://apidirect.io/v1/substack/trending"   -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://apidirect.io/v1/substack/trending",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
)
print(response.json())

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      "author": "mattstoller",
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        {
          "name": "Matt Stoller",
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          "username": "mattstoller"
        }
      ],
      "comments": 23,
      "cover_image_url": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uRXI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F…",
      "date": "2026-10-10 19:18:47",
      "domain": "substack.com",
      "is_paid": false,
      "lang": "en",
      "likes": 172,
      "podcast_duration": 0,
      "podcast_image_url": "",
      "podcast_url": "",
      "post_id": "217288945",
      "publication": "BIG by Matt Stoller",
      "publication_id": "11524",
      "publication_url": "https://www.thebignewsletter.com",
      "reactions": {
        "❤": 172
      },
      "replies": 0,
      "restacks": 33,
      "slug": "how-pharma-middlemen-turned-the-federal",
      "snippet": "Everyone hates pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the middlemen raising drug prices. So why did Trump FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson issue them a corporate pardon?",
      "source": "Substack",
      "subtitle": "Everyone hates pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the middlemen raising drug prices. So why did Trump FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson issue them a corporate pardon?",
      "tags": [
        "pharmacy benefit managers"
      ],
      "title": "How Trump Enforcers are Sabotaging Efforts to Bring Down Drug Prices",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "url": "https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-pharma-middlemen-turned-the-federal",
      "video_duration": 0,
      "wordcount": 2205
    }
  ]
}