Medium API

Status

Open to develop

Submitted

The Medium API Actor automates the extraction and management of content from Medium.com, allowing users to programmatically access articles, author profiles, publications, and engagement metrics without manual browsing or copy-pasting. This actor scrapes Medium's web interface to gather comprehensive data, including article text, metadata, clap counts, comment threads, follower statistics, and publication information.

Key features

  • Bulk article extraction: Retrieve articles from specific authors or publications with full text and metadata.
  • Comprehensive author profile scraping: Access bio information and follower counts.
  • Publication data mining: Analyze top-performing content and engagement patterns.
  • Automated monitoring: Track new publications from followed writers or topics.

Target audience

This Actor is designed for content marketers and social media managers analyzing competitor content strategies, researchers and journalists requiring data for media analysis projects, SEO specialists tracking content performance across the platform, and developers building content aggregation or recommendation systems.

Benefits

  • Eliminate time-consuming manual data collection.
  • Provide structured data exports for analysis and reporting.
  • Enable competitive intelligence gathering at scale.
  • Support automated content curation workflows.
  • Offer reliable access to Medium's vast content ecosystem for research and business intelligence purposes.

This is just an idea. You’re free to adapt it, expand on it, or take it in a completely different direction. Treat it as inspiration, not as rules, endorsement, or guidance.

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