What this robot does
Ghost has become a serious contender in the headless CMS space, powering publications, membership businesses, and content-heavy websites. As the platform grows, so does the ecosystem of specialists who build on it - developers who create custom themes, designers who craft branded experiences, and consultants who handle migrations from WordPress or Substack. Ghost maintains an official expert directory to connect users with these professionals, but the directory offers no export feature and browsing through profiles one at a time is slow when you are evaluating multiple candidates.
This robot extracts every expert listing from the Ghost directory: names, profile images, and direct links to each expert's full profile. Whether you are a publisher looking for a migration specialist, a startup choosing a Ghost development partner, or an agency benchmarking the competitive landscape of Ghost service providers, this scraper puts the entire directory into a spreadsheet for efficient comparison.
What extracting the Ghost expert directory enables:
- ✓ Complete visibility into the Ghost expert ecosystem - every listed consultant, developer, and designer captured with their specialty, description, and contact details in one export.
- ✓ Efficient vendor comparison by sorting and filtering experts in a spreadsheet instead of clicking through individual profile pages on the Ghost directory.
- ✓ Competitive intelligence for Ghost agencies: see who else offers the services you provide, how they position themselves, and what specialties are most represented in the directory.
- ✓ Partnership discovery by identifying Ghost experts whose skills complement yours - a developer can find designers, and a consultant can find implementation partners.
| Position | Name | Image URL | Link |
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| #1 | Ghost Dev Studios | thumbnail | ghost.org/experts/ghost-dev-studios |
| #2 | Sarah Chen Design | thumbnail | ghost.org/experts/sarah-chen-design |
| #3 | Migrations Plus | thumbnail | ghost.org/experts/migrations-plus |
| #4 | Theme Crafters Co | thumbnail | ghost.org/experts/theme-crafters-co |
| #5 | Headless Consulting Group | thumbnail | ghost.org/experts/headless-consulting |
No Ghost API token, no web scraping code, and nothing to install. The robot reads the expert directory page and captures every listing.
- A free Browse AI account (no credit card required).
- The URL of Ghost's expert directory page.
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Sign up for free
Create your Browse AI account in under a minute. No credit card required. You will find this prebuilt robot in the robot library ready to use.
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Paste the Ghost experts directory URL
Navigate to Ghost's official expert directory and copy the page URL. Paste it into the robot. If the directory has category filters (developers, designers, consultants), apply the filter you want before copying the URL to extract only the relevant subset.
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Run the robot
Click run. The robot loads the Ghost expert directory and extracts each listing: expert position number, name, profile image URL, and direct link to their full profile. The full directory is captured in a single run.
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Connect integrations or export your data
Your expert database is ready. Export to Google Sheets to share with your team for vendor evaluation, sync to Airtable for a filterable directory you can reference across projects, or connect via Zapier to track when new experts appear in the directory.
What can you do with Ghost expert directory data?
A structured expert database supports vendor selection, competitive analysis, and partnership development:
- Vendor shortlisting: Filter experts by specialty and compare service descriptions side by side. Narrow down candidates for your Ghost project without visiting dozens of profile pages.
- Migration planning: Identify experts who specifically handle WordPress-to-Ghost or Substack-to-Ghost migrations. Compare their positioning and reach out to the best-fit candidates.
- Agency competitive analysis: If you offer Ghost services, extract the directory to see how competitors describe their specialties, what services they highlight, and where gaps exist that you could fill.
- Partnership outreach: Find complementary service providers - a theme developer finding a copywriter, or a consultant finding a designer - and build referral partnerships within the Ghost ecosystem.
- Market sizing for Ghost services: Analyze how many experts are listed in each category. Understand the maturity and depth of the Ghost professional services market.
- Client recommendations: Agencies and consultants can maintain an updated database of Ghost experts to recommend specialists to clients when a project requires skills outside their own scope.
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Publishers and media companies
Evaluating Ghost for your publication? Extract the expert directory to find migration specialists, theme developers, and consultants who can get your site live faster.
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Ghost developers and agencies
Benchmark your agency against other Ghost experts. See how competitors position their services and identify specialties where demand may exceed supply.
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Content creators and newsletter operators
Moving to Ghost from Substack or WordPress? Find the right migration expert by comparing specialties and service descriptions in a spreadsheet.
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Freelance designers and consultants
Discover partnership opportunities within the Ghost ecosystem. Find developers, strategists, and other specialists whose services complement your own.
Each expert listing from the directory becomes a structured row with these fields:
| Field | What it contains |
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| Position | The ranking or order number of the expert in the directory listing. |
| Name | The name of the individual or agency listed in the Ghost directory. |
| Image URL | The URL of the expert's profile image or logo displayed in the directory. |
| Link | Direct link to the expert's full profile in the Ghost directory. |
Ghost updates its expert directory as new professionals are verified and listed. Schedule periodic extractions to catch new additions and maintain an up-to-date vendor database.
Frequently asked questions
Is Ghost's expert directory publicly accessible?
Yes. Ghost maintains a public directory of verified experts on their website. The robot extracts the data displayed on that public page - no authentication or Ghost account is required for the extraction.
Can I filter by specialty before extracting?
If the Ghost directory offers category filters on the page, apply them before copying the URL. The robot captures whatever listings are displayed on the filtered results page.
How many experts are typically listed in the directory?
The number varies as Ghost adds new verified professionals. The robot extracts every listing present on the page at the time of the run, regardless of how many there are.
Expert selection is one step in planning a Ghost project - combine it with theme and integration data for a complete picture:
- Ghost integrations scraper - After finding a Ghost expert, research the platform's integration ecosystem. Extract the list of available Ghost integrations to plan your tech stack.
- Ghost themes scraper - Complement your expert research with theme data. Extract Ghost marketplace themes to evaluate design options alongside development partner candidates.
- Ghost creators scraper - Research successful Ghost publications by extracting creator listings from the explore page. Understand what thriving Ghost sites look like before hiring an expert.
Find the right Ghost expert for your project
Names, specialties, portfolios, websites - the full Ghost expert directory in a spreadsheet.
