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title: Moving Newsletter off Substack | ||
datatype: Newsletter | ||
sources: Substack | ||
destinations: ["Beehiiv", "Buttondown", "Ghost", "WordPress", "Download myself"] | ||
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# Alternatives | ||
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[Beehiiv has a support article](https://support.beehiiv.com/hc/en-us/articles/14966988360215-How-to-migrate-from-Substack-to-beehiiv) | ||
explaining how to migrate a Substack newsletter to the Beehiiv platform. The article explains multiple steps rather than an | ||
all-in-one tool, but that might be a good thing because use cases differ depending on whether a creator wishes to migrate | ||
public newsletter articles or private ones, and free subscribers or premium. | ||
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[Buttondown also supports](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-migrate-newsletter-substack-to-buttondown/) importing data exported from | ||
Substack, and importing the entire ZIP file via upload to Buttondown. | ||
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[Ghost also builds off exports](https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/), and has command-line tools to complete what appears | ||
to be complicated but well-supported migration process. This includes comments. | ||
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[Wordpress supports](https://wordpress.com/support/import-from-substack/) the same approach via its Tools > Import > Substack | ||
menu, importing subscribers as well as content. | ||
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## Download data | ||
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Substack's export/download tools allow newsletter owners to download in a readable format: | ||
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* subscriber lists | ||
* posts | ||
* "related statistics" | ||
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We assume (but did not verify) that this does include content files such as videos and podcast files. | ||
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## What this solution can do | ||
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Whether downloading for backup, uploading to Beehiiv or uplaoding to Buttondown, this solution involves working from Substack's | ||
export formats and download. | ||
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This is a complete, although work-intensive and often manual, process for moving a newsletter and subscribers from Substack to Beehiiv. | ||
It is even capable of moving paid subscribers -- using Stripe migration tools. | ||
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Migrating just free content into Beehiiv is a simpler more automated process so the length and complexity of the support article | ||
need not be offputting if the use case is simpler. | ||
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## What this solution does not do | ||
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Because this solution involves downloading Substack's exports, it relies on having storage space and finding and using the downloads. | ||
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We might not have complete information in this article about which other platforms import media files, comments and other | ||
information besides the base HTML posts themselves. Contributions here are welcome. | ||
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The documented Beehiiv solution does not migrate videos, podcast files, paywall placements, photo galleries, comments, and a few more things that can be found in the support article (kudos to Beehiiv for providing excellent detail on this). |
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