Medium Scraper: Articles by Author, Publication or Tag (RSS)

Latest Medium articles for any author, publication or tag from Medium's official RSS feeds: title, author, date, tags, image, link, and full article text and word count where the feed includes it. Keyword and date filters. No login. $1 per 1,000 articles.

A Medium scraper that uses Medium's own RSS feeds. Give it tags, authors or publications (including publications on their own domain) and get one clean row per story: title, author, publication date and last update, tags, cover image, clean link (tracking parameters removed) and a snippet. For author and publication feeds you also get the full article as plain text (and optionally HTML) with word count and reading time. Filter by keyword and date. Use it for content research and monitoring, tracking competitors' engineering blogs, newsletter and digest curation, topic trend analysis and feeding your own reader or LLM pipeline. $1 per 1,000 articles, with no compute bill on top; problems return a free status row instead of failing.

What data does it return?

Every run outputs clean, schema-validated rows like these:

title	author	feed	hasFullContent	readingTimeMinutes
Netflix Conductor: The Next Chapter	Netflix Technology Blog	netflixtechblog.com	true	20
The MCP Tool We Deleted: Generic Query Tools vs Typed Tools		artificial-intelligence	false
Measuring the Impact of Personalized Recommendations	Netflix Technology Blog	netflixtechblog.com	true	10

How much does it cost?

Transparent pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you get, and the actor always respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and it stops cleanly at the cap instead of overrunning.

Event	Price	Charged	Worked example
article	$0.001	per article row	1,000 articles = $1.00 (full text included when the feed has it)
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	per run per GB of memory (platform start fee)	One run at 256 MB = $0.00005

Input options

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
tags	array	no	—	Medium tags, e.g. artificial-intelligence, python, startup, or medium.com/tag/... URLs. Tag feeds give the 10 newest stories with a snippet.
authors	array	no	—	Medium usernames (@name), profile URLs or name.medium.com addresses. Author feeds include the full article text.
publications	array	no	—	Publication slugs (towards-data-science, better-programming), medium.com/<publication> URLs, or custom domains of Medium publications (netflixtechblog.com).
includeFullText	boolean	no	true	Return the article as plain text when the feed contains it (author and publication feeds).
includeHtml	boolean	no	false	Also return the article HTML from the feed.
keyword	string	no	—	Optional: keep only articles whose title, text or tags contain this word or phrase.
publishedAfter	string	no	—	Optional date (YYYY-MM-DD).
maxItems	integer	no	500	Upper limit on articles for the whole run.

Limits & honest notes

• Responsible use: articles are their authors' copyright. Use the data for research, monitoring, search and analysis, link back to the original story, and do not republish full articles without permission. This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by A Medium Corporation.
• It reads only Medium's public RSS feeds (robots.txt allows /feed) and never opens article pages, at most one feed every 1.5 s, with an honest user agent (ActorForge-Medium). There is no login, no cookies, no proxies and no paywall bypass: member-only stories appear with the snippet Medium puts in the feed.
• Each feed lists about the 10 most recent stories, so this is a monitor for new posts, not a back-catalogue export; schedule it to build history. Tag feeds carry snippets only; author and publication feeds carry the full text. Clap and response counts are not in the feeds.
• If Medium answers with a block or challenge page, the run stops, keeps the articles already delivered and adds a free status row. Respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and the run stops cleanly at the cap. Unknown feeds return a free status row.

Related ActorForge actors

• RSS Feed Reader — any other blog or news feed
• Article Extractor — clean text from article pages on other sites

Changelog

• 2026-10-23 — Initial release: tag, author, publication and custom-domain feeds; full text, HTML, word count and reading time where available; keyword and date filters; free status rows.

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