# Medium User Posts Scraper (`easyapi/medium-user-posts-scraper`) Actor

Extract detailed post data from Medium user profiles. Get comprehensive information about articles, including engagement metrics, publication details, and content status. Perfect for content analysis, research, and tracking Medium writers' performance. 🔍📊

- **URL**: https://apify.com/easyapi/medium-user-posts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [EasyApi](https://apify.com/easyapi) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 31 total users, 1 monthly users, 97.2% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Medium User Posts Scraper 📝

### 🤖 What does Medium User Posts Scraper do?

This actor scrapes detailed information about posts from Medium users' profiles. For each provided Medium username, it extracts comprehensive data about their published articles, including titles, engagement metrics, and publication details.

### ✨ Features

- 🔍 Scrapes posts from any public Medium profile
- 📊 Extracts detailed metrics (claps, responses, reading time)
- 🔒 Identifies premium (member-only) content
- 📅 Captures publication dates and update history
- 🖼️ Includes preview image URLs
- 📚 Supports collection/publication information
- ⚡ Fast and efficient with built-in request optimization

### 📋 Output Dataset

The actor extracts the following data for each post:

- Post ID and title
- Subtitle/description
- Direct URL to the post
- Estimated reading time
- Premium content status
- Engagement metrics (claps, responses)
- Publication dates (first and latest)
- Preview image URL
- Author information
- Collection/Publication details
- Visibility and publication status

### 💡 Use Cases

- 📈 Track content performance metrics
- 🎯 Analyze posting patterns and engagement
- 📊 Monitor publication strategy
- 🔍 Research content topics and trends
- 📱 Build content aggregation services

### 💪 Input Parameters

- `usernames`: Array of Medium usernames to scrape (e.g., \["username1", "username2"])
- `maxItems`: Maximum number of posts to scrape per user

#### Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

```
{
    "usernames": [
        "mariaspantidi"
    ],
    "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.

```
[
	{
		"username": "yaelwolfe",
		"id": "5c510f575964",
		"title": "What Does It Mean to Write Women’s Fiction?",
		"subtitle": "A female writer’s musings on the challenges of an imposed niche",
		"url": "https://medium.com/wilder-with-yael-wolfe/what-does-it-mean-to-write-womens-fiction-5c510f575964",
		"readingTime": 9,
		"isLocked": true,
		"responseCount": 49,
		"clapCount": 2515,
		"visibility": "LOCKED",
		"isSeries": false,
		"firstPublishedAt": "2024-11-03T16:44:42.880Z",
		"latestPublishedAt": "2024-11-03T16:44:42.880Z",
		"previewImage": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:320:214/1*X1YZ5fw1y51ytJvBArdhMA.jpeg",
		"isPublished": true,
		"isLimitedState": false,
		"creator": {
			"id": "d02ca71a13d6",
			"name": "Y.L. Wolfe",
			"username": "yaelwolfe",
			"bio": "Adventuring & nesting in middle age. Welcome to my second act. | Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gleDcD | Email: hello@ylwolfe.com"
		},
		"collection": {
			"name": "Wilder",
			"subscriberCount": 675,
			"description": "We will not be tamed."
		},
		"scrapedAt": "2024-11-06T16:44:42.880Z"
	},
    ...
]
```

# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

Medium user profile page URLs to scrape, e.g. https://medium.com/@username or https://username.medium.com/

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to scrape per profile

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings for the actor

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://cerwyn.medium.com/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://cerwyn.medium.com/"
    ],
    "maxItems": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("easyapi/medium-user-posts-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "profileUrls": ["https://cerwyn.medium.com/"],
    "maxItems": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("easyapi/medium-user-posts-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://cerwyn.medium.com/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}' |
apify call easyapi/medium-user-posts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,easyapi/medium-user-posts-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Ajf2WSqR9kMmFPJ1j/builds/bGslSo7WhwnSeqeR2/openapi.json