Medium Publications Search Scraper 🔍

Powerful scraper for extracting publication data from Medium's search results. Get detailed information about publications matching your search keywords.

🎯 Use Cases

• Research Medium publications in your niche
• Find potential publication partners for content distribution
• Analyze publication landscape for specific topics
• Build databases of Medium publications
• Monitor new publications in specific areas

✨ Features

• Keyword-based Search: Search publications using specific keywords
• Customizable Results: Control the number of results you want to collect
• Rich Data: Extract comprehensive publication details
• Efficient Scraping: Uses advanced scrolling and data interception techniques
• Clean Output: Well-structured JSON data ready for analysis

📊 Output Data Structure

For each publication, you'll get:

• id: Unique publication identifier
• name: Publication name
• slug: URL-friendly name
• url: Complete Medium publication URL
• shortDescription: Brief description of the publication
• avatarUrl: Publication's avatar image URL (if available)

💡 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description
keywords	Array	List of keywords to search for publications
maxItems	Number	Maximum number of publications to collect

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "keywords": [
        "write"
    ],
    "maxItems": 30
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
	{
		"id": "f5806a35d98f",
		"name": "Lumen Press",
		"slug": "lumen-press",
		"url": "https://medium.com/lumen-press",
		"shortDescription": "The Press Arm of the Nigeria Federation of Catholic…",
		"avatarUrl": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1*DEH32ROUse1jNilCjKhOXQ.png"
	},
	{
		"id": "cf83e574f4f7",
		"name": "I want to be a writer",
		"slug": "i-want-to-become-a-writer",
		"url": "https://medium.com/i-want-to-become-a-writer",
		"shortDescription": "My evolution from someone who wanted, to the person who…",
		"avatarUrl": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1*9xRCeqQHO5iCHpMbf2pUAQ.jpeg"
	},
    ...
]