Medium Top Stories, Authors, and Publications Scraper
Pricing
$0.80 / 1,000 results
Go to Apify Store
Medium Top Stories, Authors, and Publications Scraper
Scrape trending Medium articles, top stories, authors, tags, and publications across AI, Technology, Startups, Crypto, and Programming.
Pricing
$0.80 / 1,000 results
Rating
0.0
(0)
Developer
Darim Quraishi
Maintained by CommunityActor stats
0
Bookmarked
2
Total users
1
Monthly active users
18 hours ago
Last modified
Categories
Share
Medium Articles, Authors and Publications Scraper
Scrape articles, author profiles, topic tags, and publication feeds from Medium using public RSS feeds.
Features
- Extracts articles across topic tags like artificial-intelligence, technology, and startup.
- Monitors publication feeds such as Towards Data Science and The Startup.
- Tracks articles from individual author handles.
- Pulls article titles, author bylines, canonical links, and publication dates.
- Extracts story category tags and clean text preview snippets.
- Runs proxy-free over public RSS endpoints.
Input parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
mode | String | "tags" | Scrape mode: "tags", "publications", or "authors". |
tags | Array | ["artificial-intelligence", "technology", "startup", "programming"] | Topic tags when mode is "tags". |
publications | Array | ["towards-data-science", "the-startup"] | Publication handles when mode is "publications". |
authors | Array | ["@timdenning"] | Author handles when mode is "authors". |
maxItems | Integer | 50 | Maximum stories to output into the dataset. |
Output format
json { "mode": "tags", "tags": ["artificial-intelligence", "technology", "startup"], "maxItems": 50 }Use cases
- Content research: Study high-performing headlines and topics in your industry.
- Newsletter curation: Compile weekly digests of significant articles across specific tags.
- Author outreach: Discover active writers and subject-matter contributors.
- Trend tracking: Monitor technical discussions and tutorials published by engineering teams.
Pricing and efficiency
- Typical runtime: 2 to 4 seconds per execution.
- Zero proxy costs: Runs over public REST and RSS endpoints without residential proxy pools.
- Suitable for scheduled runs and continuous monitoring under standard platform limits.
