How to connect Intelliminds to Substack

Turn an approved Intelliminds article into a newsletter-ready handoff with the selected audience, comments, author, tags, cover image, and email-delivery settings.

Substack publishing uses a dedicated browser-based publishing worker rather than an official public Substack publishing API.

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Connect Intelliminds with Substack.

Review setup, capabilities, and current boundaries below.

How the Substack integration works

Intelliminds prepares a versioned payload and queues it for the designated Substack publishing worker, which completes the browser-based publishing task.

01
Configure the publication
Set the Substack publication and admin URLs plus the intended publishing defaults.
02
Approve the handoff
Review the content, audience, comments, email delivery, author, tags, and cover image.
03
Queue publication
Intelliminds creates a dedicated publishing task and tracks the article as exported until the handoff completes.

What you can do with Intelliminds and Substack

Prepare Markdown and HTML content for a Substack post.
Carry title, slug, summary, SEO context, and cover-image details into the handoff.
Configure everyone or paid-subscriber audience settings.
Configure comments and whether the publication should send an email.
Discover recent public post, author, and tag metadata from the publication.

What moves between the tools

A publishing task receives the approved content and the publication settings needed to operate the Substack editor.

Content: Title, slug, Markdown, HTML, summary, and meta description context.
Publication choices: Audience, comment setting, draft or publish intent, and email-delivery preference.
Identity: Selected author and tags when they can be discovered from the publication.
Media: Cover-image source URL and alt text for the publishing handoff.

How to connect Substack to Intelliminds

Because the workflow drives the publisher interface, validate it against the actual Substack publication before using it for routine delivery.

1Confirm the publication's public and admin URLs.
2Configure the authorized publishing account through the approved secure setup path.
3Choose audience, comments, author, tag, and email defaults.
4Queue one draft-style test and verify the result before sending to subscribers.

Popular ways to use the Substack integration

Article-to-newsletter adaptation

Turn a researched article into a newsletter-ready publication without copying content by hand.

Audience-controlled delivery

Prepare content for everyone or paid subscribers and set whether Substack should send the email.

Editorial handoff

Review the prepared content and settings before the browser publishing task runs.

Common Substack integration checks

The task remains exported

Check the designated publishing worker and task status; the initial queue does not itself prove the Substack post is live.

Authors or tags are missing

Confirm the publication exposes them on accessible public pages and review the selected values before publishing.

The editor flow changed

Stop automated publishing and update the browser workflow rather than retrying against an unexpected interface.

Substack integration questions

Does the Substack integration use an official publishing API?

No. It queues an approved payload to a dedicated browser-based publishing worker.

Can Intelliminds choose the Substack audience?

Yes. The configured handoff can target everyone or paid subscribers and can carry comments and email-delivery choices.

Can Intelliminds delete a Substack post?

No. Remote Substack deletion is currently unsupported and must be handled directly in Substack.

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