Medium Articles Scraper (Tags, Authors, No Login)

Scrape Medium posts by tag, author, publication or link: one row per post with title, publish date, claps, responses, reading time, word count, member-only flag, author and tags, plus the full text of free posts when you want it, as JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, no cookies, no API key.

• Monitor a topic: the newest or most clapped posts on any tag, every day.
• Follow writers and publications: a scheduled run returns only their new posts.
• Research content that works: compare claps, responses and reading time across a tag's top posts of the week, month, year or all time.
• Feed a reading list or newsletter: titles, links and the text of free posts in one table.

Quick start

Paste this into the JSON tab of the input and click Start:

{"tags": ["programming"], "maxPostsPerSource": 25}

You get the 25 newest posts tagged programming in under 10 seconds. More examples:

{"tags": ["startup", "product-management", "data-science"], "tagSort": "top-year", "maxPostsPerSource": 50}

{"authors": ["@username"], "publications": ["https://medium.com/some-publication"], "maxPostsPerSource": 20, "includeBody": true, "onlyNew": true}

The first returns the most clapped posts of the year on three topics; the second is a daily watch on a writer and a publication that returns only new posts, with the text of the free ones.

What data can I get?

Group	Fields
Post	postId, title, subtitle, url, publishedAt, updatedAt, tags, previewImage, isMemberOnly
Numbers	claps, responses (counted, not collected), readingTimeMinutes, wordCount
Author	authorName, authorUsername, authorUrl
Publication	publicationName, publicationSlug, publicationUrl
Text	bodyText: plain text of free posts with includeBody (headings, paragraphs, lists and quotes kept; image captions and link cards dropped). Always null for member-only posts
Source	type, sourceType (tag, author, publication, post), source, scrapedAt

Sources can be tags (names or tag links, read in the order you pick with tagSort: latest, recommended, or top of the week, month, year or all time), authors (@username, profile links or username.medium.com), publications (medium.com links, their own domains or slugs) and single post links.

One real row (tag "programming", run on 2026-10-18, shortened):

{
  "type": "post",
  "postId": "03b92da9da9f",
  "title": "9 Things Senior Developers Never Ignore",
  "url": "https://medium.com/skillstuff/9-things-senior-developers-never-ignore-03b92da9da9f",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-18T03:41:28.046Z",
  "claps": 5,
  "responses": 0,
  "readingTimeMinutes": 15.1,
  "wordCount": 3956,
  "isMemberOnly": true,
  "authorName": "CodeByUmar",
  "authorUsername": "codebyumar",
  "publicationName": "Skill Stuff",
  "publicationUrl": "https://medium.com/skillstuff",
  "tags": ["programming", "software-development", "coding", "software-engineering", "web-development"],
  "bodyText": null,
  "sourceType": "tag",
  "source": "programming"
}

The dataset has two views (Posts and Not found (free)) and exports to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML. The run's SUMMARY record counts posts per source.

How much does it cost?

You pay per post returned. There is no charge for Apify platform usage on top, and post text is included.

Row	Free and Starter	Scale	Business
Post	$0.50 per 1,000	$0.375 per 1,000	$0.275 per 1,000

Plus $0.00005 per run start. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers about 10,000 posts. Free-plan runs stop at 500 posts each; any paid Apify plan removes the cap.

What's free: tags, authors, publications or links that can't be found (a free row says so), posts skipped by onlyNew, and a post that turns up in two of your sources (one row per post per run). To cap a run's spend, set maxResults or Maximum cost per run in the run options: the run stops cleanly at that amount.

Limits, stated up front

• Member-only posts: you get the title, date, claps, responses, reading time and link, never the text. Members-only content stays members-only.
• How deep each source goes: Medium shows about 100 posts per tag list (per order), so a tag returns at most about 100 latest and 100 top posts each run; schedule it daily with onlyNew to build up more. Author and publication pages go back years: maxPostsPerSource: 0 reads up to 5,000 posts per source, and postedAfter keeps it to what's new.
• Order: publication home pages list featured posts first, then the rest by date. Author pages and the latest tag order are newest first.
• Search is not offered: Medium asks crawlers to stay off its search pages, so use tags instead.
• Responses are counted, not collected. No commenter names or response text.
• Post text can occasionally be missing. If a free post's text can't be read, the row still comes back with bodyText: null and the run's status message counts it.
• Data comes from the pages and data medium.com loads for any logged-out reader.

Only new since last run, and schedules

Turn on onlyNew, save the input as a task and add a schedule under Schedules in Apify Console. Each run returns, and charges for, only posts that earlier runs with the same sources and tag order did not return; skipped posts cost nothing. Use postedAfter (a date such as 2026-10-01, or 24 hours, 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months) to limit any run to recent posts, and memberOnly (free or member) to keep one kind.

Integrations: API, n8n, Make and AI agents

API. Run it and get the rows back in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/locaihost~medium-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tags": ["data-science"], "tagSort": "top-week", "maxPostsPerSource": 20}'

Apify's API clients for Python and JavaScript work the same way.

n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks. Apify's built-in integrations send each run's dataset wherever you need it, for example a daily Slack message with new posts from the writers you follow.

AI agents (MCP). Add this Actor to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=locaihost/medium-scraper, then ask something like "What were the most clapped Medium posts about product management this month?"

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape Medium?

$0.50 per 1,000 posts on the Free and Starter plans, less on Scale and Business, with post text included. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers about 10,000 posts.

Can I use it through the API or from Python?

Yes. Use the run-sync-get-dataset-items call above, or Apify's Python and JavaScript clients. Every run's data is also available as JSON, CSV or Excel from its dataset.

Can I use it from an AI agent?

Yes. Through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=locaihost/medium-scraper) any MCP client can call it with tags, authors or publications and read the rows back.

Is it legal to scrape Medium?

The Actor reads the public pages and data medium.com loads for any logged-out reader. It never logs in, never reads member-only text and never collects responses or commenters. Posts belong to their writers: use the data for research, media monitoring and content discovery, and respect copyright, Medium's terms and the laws that apply to you. Medium's published licence file does not allow its content to be used to train models. You are responsible for how you use the results. If you are a writer or Medium and want something changed, open an issue and we will act on it promptly.

Why are some fields empty?

bodyText is null unless includeBody is on, and always null for member-only posts. subtitle, publicationName and previewImage are empty when the post has none, and new posts often show 0 claps.

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