---
title: "List the publications ranked in one Substack category"
method: GET
path: "/substack/category"
tags: ["Substack"]
---

# List the publications ranked in one Substack category

`GET /substack/category`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/substack/category`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Returns one page of a category's public publication leaderboard. Each row carries the publication's subscriber signals and its full subscription offering (web plans with multi-currency pricing, App Store plans, and per-tier benefits). Subscriber totals are published to roughly three significant figures and are opt-in per writer; paid subscriber figures are only ever buckets. Upstream serves 25 publications per page and accepts pages 0-26, so at most 675 publications are reachable per category and type.

## Query parameters

- `category_id` string, required
- `type` 'paid' | 'free'
- `page` integer

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- SubstackCategoryResponseDoc
  - `code` integer
  - `data` SubstackCategoryResult
    - `category_id` string
    - `has_more` boolean
    - `page` integer
    - `publications` SubstackPublicationListItem[]
      - `author_handle` string
      - `author_id` integer
      - `author_name` string
      - `custom_domain` string
      - `explicit` boolean
      - `hero_text` string
      - `id` integer
      - `language` string
      - `logo_url` string
      - `name` string
      - `payments_enabled` boolean
      - `subdomain` string
      - `subscribers` SubstackSubscriberCounts
        - `follower_count` integer
        - `paid_rough` string: PaidRough and PaidRoughInt are the only paid-subscriber figures Substack publishes, and both are buckets rather than counts. PaidRoughInt is the finer of the two and is always present; PaidTier is the coarser threshold behind the public bestseller badge.
        - `paid_rough_int` integer
        - `paid_tier` integer
        - `total` integer
        - `total_display` string
        - `total_hidden` boolean
        - `total_rough` string
      - `subscription` SubstackSubscription
        - `annual_disabled` boolean
        - `app_store_plans` SubstackAppStorePlan[]
          - `active` boolean
          - `amount_cents` integer
          - `currency` string
          - `display_name` string
          - `display_price` string
          - `is_founding` boolean
          - `period` string
          - `sku` string
        - `founding_benefits` string[]
        - `founding_plan_name` string
        - `free_benefits` string[]
        - `free_trial_enabled` boolean
        - `group_discount_percent` number
        - `monthly_disabled` boolean
        - `paid_benefits` string[]
        - `payments_state` string
        - `plans` SubstackSubscriptionPlan[]
          - `active` boolean
          - `amount_cents` integer
          - `currencies` SubstackPlanCurrency[]
            - `amount_cents` integer
            - `currency` string
          - `currency` string
          - `id` string
          - `interval` string
          - `interval_count` integer
          - `kind` string
          - `nickname` string
          - `trial_period_days` integer
        - `pledges_enabled` boolean
      - `url` string
    - `type` string
  - `msg` string

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `503`: Service Unavailable

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