{"id":407,"date":"2026-01-30T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toolarium.club\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:58:04","slug":"substack-metadata-viewer-a-new-tool-for-substack-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolarium.club\/blog\/substack-metadata-viewer-a-new-tool-for-substack-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Substack Metadata Viewer &#8211; A New Tool For Substack Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, Mark Thompson posted something in his Skool community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skool.com\/the-inner-circle\/about?ref=7dfa82a8d0ce4c17b2030a522f785a78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Systematic Writer Inner Circle<\/a>, about the importance of tags on Substack.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed a way to find out what tags other writers are using, which is not something that Substack shows on a post.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I saw how he was finding those tags, by looking in the HTML source code, I knew that I could create a simple tool that would make that process much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Because, let&#8217;s face it, few people enjoy digging through unreadable code looking for specific details. 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