Substack Downloader

URL forms this page accepts

Every link form below points at Substack and is recognised automatically, including short links and country domains. There is no need to strip tracking parameters first — anything after the question mark is ignored.

Substack URL patterns recognised

The patterns below are the URL grammar the engine actually parses, with the identifying part masked as <id>. If your link matches one of them, this page can process it.

• <user>.substack.com/p/<id>?s=<s>
• <user>.substack.com/p/<id>

Dedicated handling for Substack

Substack is not handled by one generic rule. There are 1 separate handlers: Substack.

About Substack and how downloader.asia processes it

Substack is a paid-newsletter platform founded in 2017; each writer gets their own subdomain. Posts can embed video or a podcast, and only posts published publicly can be processed.

The request is handed to yt-dlp on our server with a 30-second timeout profile, using its built-in Substack extractor. The format list you see is the list substack.com itself exposes — no transcoding, no re-encoding, so the file you receive is identical to the source file.

Extractors used for Substack: Substack. Of the 56 curated services on this site, Substack is one of those with its own handling rather than the generic path.

Measured result for Substack

The numbers below are not a marketing claim: each one comes from a real public Substack request run on 2026-09-04 through the same endpoint you use. A different item can return a different list.

Format rows returned

2

Video choices

1

File containers

MP4

Analysis time

1.9 s

Substack technical summary

Source domain

substack.com

Founded

2017

Origin

United States

Operated by

Substack Inc.

Content type

Video

Recognised hosts

2

Dedicated handlers

1

Timeout profile

30 s

Listed formats

2

Account required

No

Formats available for Substack

This list follows what substack.com itself exposes for one video. When a format does not appear for a specific item, the source is not publishing it — this page is not the limit.

MP4

an H.264/AAC video container that plays on every phone, TV, and editor without conversion

MP3

the most compatible lossy audio format, plays on anything

Choosing a quality

The resolution number (720p, 1080p, 4K) is frame height. Some top qualities are stored by the platform as separate video and audio streams; picking that row merges them back into a single MP4 before download, so you never end up with a silent file.

Pages related to Substack

If your link turns out not to be from Substack, these pages are closest in job: Tumblr, Patreon — creator platforms built on written subscriptions.

• Tumblr Downloader
• Patreon Downloader

Limits we state openly

• Public Substack content only. Private, deleted, or login-gated posts cannot be processed and there is no way to force them.
• Formats and quality follow what substack.com exposes; there is no upscaling and no re-encoding.
• DRM is not circumvented. Encrypted subscription content is out of scope here.

What happens to your link

A Substack link is processed in memory to build the format list, then discarded. There is no account, no download history, and the file is not copied onto our servers — the stream goes straight from the source to your device.

What to use this for

Save video you created yourself, that is licensed for reuse, or that the owner permits. Substack's terms of service still apply to you as its user, and someone else's copyright does not disappear just because the file is publicly reachable.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-04