Read a Substack Publication Through Your Muse
Through an AnythingMCP custom connector, your muse can read one Substack publication for you: list its latest posts, search its archive, open a post in full, read the top comments, and check its RSS feed.
What it does
Substack is a site where writers publish newsletters readers follow by email and on the web. The connector adds 7 read-only tools, with no API key and no Substack login. The muse can list recent posts newest first or by most liked, each marked as a newsletter, a podcast episode, or a thread, and as free or paid. It can search the archive for a topic, open one post by its link or number, read the top comments under a post, pull the RSS feed to see what is new, and turn a writer handle into the address of their publication. That is a calm way to catch up on a writer you follow, or find the one post you half remember, without scrolling through months of email.
How to use it
- Start an AnythingMCP account and add the Substack connector.
- Set the publication address the connector asks for. Use the home address only, with nothing after it.
- In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the MCP server address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in and approve.
- Check the setup by asking for the ten latest posts, with the date and whether each one is free or paid, and compare with the publication page itself.
- Ask in plain words, for example to find every post that talks about one topic, or to sum up the latest post in a few short points.
What you need
- A Muse account that can add custom connectors
- An AnythingMCP account with the Substack connector added
- The home address of the one publication you want to read
What to watch for
- One connector reads one publication. To read a different one, change the publication address in the connector.
- The connector does not log in, so it sees what a signed-out visitor sees. A paid post comes back as its free preview only, and paid content is not opened for you.
- It only reads. The muse cannot post, reply, or manage subscribers through it.
- Space out large archive sweeps. Heavy traffic in a short burst can be slowed down, at about one request a second.
- This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.