Medium Scraper — Articles, Full Text, Authors, Claps & Comments
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from $1.00 / 1,000 results
Scrape Medium by tag, search, author, publication or URL: posts with claps, responses, reading time, tags, author and publication stats, plus optional full article text as Markdown and comments. Whole tag archives, thousands of posts per run, no login. Not affiliated with Medium.
Row type
rowType
Optional
post, response, author, publication or tag. Filter on it when one run returns several kinds of rows.
ID
id
Optional
Medium ID of the post, response, user or publication (12 hex characters); the slug for tags. Stable — use it to deduplicate across runs.
Title
title
Optional
Post headline.
Subtitle
subtitle
Optional
The post's subtitle / preview line as shown in feeds.
URL
url
Optional
Link to the post, response, profile, publication or tag page.
Canonical URL
canonicalUrl
Optional
Canonical link of the post. Differs from the Medium URL when the story was first published elsewhere and imported.
Published at
publishedAt
Optional
First publication time (ISO 8601, UTC).
Updated at
updatedAt
Optional
Time the latest version was published (ISO 8601, UTC). Same as publishedAt for posts never edited.
Reading time (min)
readingTimeMinutes
Optional
Medium's reading-time estimate in minutes, one decimal.
Word count
wordCount
Optional
Number of words in the full story (also for member-only posts).
Claps
claps
Optional
Total claps (one reader can clap up to 50 times).
Clappers
voters
Optional
Number of distinct readers who clapped.
Responses
responsesCount
Optional
Number of responses (comments) on the post.
Member-only
isMemberOnly
Optional
True for stories behind the Medium paywall (member-only). Their content is the public preview.
Visibility
visibility
Optional
PUBLIC, LOCKED (member-only) or UNLISTED.
Language
language
Optional
Language Medium detected for the post, ISO 639-1 (en, es, pt, de …).
Preview image
previewImageUrl
Optional
Feature image of the post (1200 px wide).
Short-form
isShortform
Optional
True for Medium's short-form posts.
Publication ID
publicationId
Optional
ID of the publication the post appeared in (empty for posts on a personal profile).
Publication
publicationName
Optional
Name of the publication.
Publication slug
publicationSlug
Optional
Publication slug, e.g. better-programming.
Publication URL
publicationUrl
Optional
Publication home page (custom domain when it has one).
Publication followers
publicationFollowers
Optional
Publication follower count.
Text
contentText
Optional
Article body as plain text with paragraph breaks (only with "Include full article text"). Member-only posts: the public preview.
Markdown
contentMarkdown
Optional
Article body as Markdown: headings, lists, quotes, code blocks with language, links and images.
Text is preview
contentIsPreview
Optional
True when the text is the paywall preview of a member-only story, false when it is the full story.
Images in article
contentImageUrls
Optional
Image URLs inside the article body, pipe-separated.
Links in article
contentLinks
Optional
Outbound links, embeds and link cards inside the article, pipe-separated.
Code blocks
codeBlockCount
Optional
Number of code blocks in the article.
Paragraphs
paragraphCount
Optional
Number of paragraphs (incl. headings, images and code blocks) returned.
Response text
text
Optional
Full text of a response (comment).
Replies
repliesCount
Optional
Replies to this response.
Depth
depth
Optional
1 = response to the post, 2 = reply to a response, and so on.
Replying to
parentPostId
Optional
ID of the post or response this one answers.
Post ID
rootPostId
Optional
ID of the story the conversation belongs to.
Post URL
rootPostUrl
Optional
URL of the story the conversation belongs to.
Name
name
Optional
Display name of an author, publication or tag.
Username
username
Optional
Author's @username.
Bio
bio
Optional
Author's short bio.
Followers
followers
Optional
Followers of the author, publication or tag.
Following
following
Optional
Accounts the author follows.
Image
imageUrl
Optional
Profile picture of the author or logo of the publication.
Member
isMember
Optional
True when the author is a paying Medium member.
Member since
memberSince
Optional
When the author's membership started (ISO 8601).
Membership tier
membershipTier
Optional
MEMBER or FRIEND when the author is a member.
Partner Program
isPartnerProgram
Optional
True when the author is enrolled in the Medium Partner Program (paid writer).
Book author
isBookAuthor
Optional
True when Medium verified the author as a book author.
X/Twitter
Optional
X (Twitter) handle of the author or publication.
Custom domain
customDomain
Optional
The author's own domain or medium.com subdomain when set.
Slug
slug
Optional
Publication slug (medium.com/).
Domain
domain
Optional
Publication custom domain, e.g. levelup.gitconnected.com.
Description
description
Optional
Publication description.
Owner
creatorName
Optional
Name of the publication's owner.
Owner username
creatorUsername
Optional
Username of the publication's owner.
Editors
editors
Optional
Editor usernames, pipe-separated.
Editors count
editorsCount
Optional
Number of editors of the publication.
Posts in tag
postCount
Optional
Total number of stories with this tag.
Found via
source
Optional
Which input produced the row: tag:[/ranking], search:, author:, publication:, url.
Rank
rank
Optional
Position in its source: search rank, position in a ranked tag list, or 1 = newest for chronological feeds.
Scraped at
scrapedAt
Optional
When the row was collected (ISO 8601).
