Medium Scraper - Articles, Full Text, Tags $2/1K

Get Medium articles from writers, publications and tags, many at once: title, link, author, publish date, tags, cover image, full text, word count and reading time. Publications on their own domain (betterprogramming.pub and others) work too. $2 per 1,000 articles, no login.

• Writers: @handle, a profile link or name.medium.com. Full text of each story.
• Publications: slug (better-programming), medium.com link or the publication's own domain. Full text of each story.
• Tags: artificial-intelligence, python, startup... The latest stories with a summary.
• Filters: only articles mentioning your keywords (title, tags or text), only articles published after a date.
• Only new articles for scheduled runs: each run delivers only what you have not received yet. Ideal for newsletters, research feeds and AI pipelines.
• Plain text for AI and spreadsheets, and the original HTML (images, links) when you want it.

In short: what you give, what you get, what it costs

You give	Medium writers, publications or tags
We do	Read their articles, including publications on their own domain
You get	One row per article: title, link, author, dates, tags, cover image, full text, word count and reading time
It costs	$2 per 1,000 articles + $0.001 per run. Feeds that fail and articles your filters drop are never charged. No supplier fee
It does not	Sign in to Medium

A real result row is shown further down this page.

Free tier — 10 results free on every run

The first 10 results of every run are free, on every run you ever make — not a one-off trial. One guard: the free allowance never covers more than half of a run, so the offer stays sustainable.

Price

	Price
Article	$2 per 1,000 ($0.002 each)

Set Max cost per run and the run stops before it spends more. Feeds that fail and articles your filters drop are never charged.

Compared with moving_beacon-owner1/medium-scraper

The most used Medium Actor on the Store (261 users in the last 30 days, read 2026-10-29). Both read the RSS feeds Medium publishes; figures are from its own page and pricing tab.

	This Actor	moving_beacon-owner1/medium-scraper
Price per 1,000 articles	$2	$10
Free results	first 10 of every run	none
Writers, publications, tags, feed links, own-domain publications	yes	yes
Keyword filter (title, tags or text), before billing	yes	no
Published-after date filter, before billing	yes	no
Only new articles since the last run	yes	no
Cover image, reading time	yes	no
Hard cost cap per run	yes	item cap only

What Medium allows, honestly

This Actor reads the RSS feeds Medium publishes for every writer, publication and tag. Each feed lists the latest 10 stories. Medium's article pages and search sit behind a Cloudflare check, which this Actor does not try to get around. So: perfect for following writers, publications and topics over time (schedule it daily with "Only new articles"), not for downloading a writer's whole archive.

Input example

{
  "users": ["@JoeyColeman"],
  "publications": ["better-programming", "https://betterprogramming.pub"],
  "tags": ["artificial-intelligence"],
  "keywords": ["agent", "RAG"],
  "onlyNewArticles": true
}

Output example

One real row from a run on Apify:

A real row from this Actor's latest run on Apify (2026-10-23; long texts are cut and people's names hidden here, your dataset has them in full):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "type": "article",
  "articleId": "ccbd1d3f9fd7",
  "title": "GPT Function Calling: 5 Underrated Use Cases",
  "url": "https://medium.com/better-programming/gpt-function-calling-5-underrated-use-cases-ccbd1d3f9fd7",
  "author": "(hidden here)",
  "publishedAt": "2023-11-10T17:33:58Z",
  "updatedAt": "2023-11-20T20:55:28.826Z",
  "tags": [
    "automation",
    "llm"
  ],
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*doghMb44J43LgPYtkUCByw.jpeg",
  "fullText": true,
  "wordCount": 1677,
  "readingTimeMinutes": 6,
  "text": "OpenAI’s “Function Calling” might be the most groundbreaking yet under appreciated feature released by any software company… ever.\nWhat a...",
  "feedType": "publication",
  "feedName": "Better Programming - Medium",
  "feedInput": "better-programming",
  "feedUrl": "https://medium.com/feed/better-programming"
}

Every field

Field	What it holds
articleId	Medium article ID
title	title
url	article link
author	writer
publishedAt	publish time
updatedAt	last update
tags	tags
imageUrl	cover image
text	article text (full when Medium's feed carries it)
fullText	true when the full text is included
wordCount	words
readingTimeMinutes	reading time (minutes)
feedType	writer, publication or tag
feedName	feed name
feedInput	what you entered
feedUrl	feed read

Use cases

• Content and newsletter curation: every new story from the writers and publications you follow, in one table.
• AI and RAG pipelines: clean full text with author, date and tags, ready to embed.
• Topic monitoring: schedule a tag or keyword and get each new story about your brand, market or technology.
• Influencer and writer research: who writes about your topic, how often and how long.

Why use it

1. Try before you pay. The first 10 results of every run are free.
2. Pay only for data delivered. Failed feeds and filtered articles are never billed.
3. Hard cost cap. Set maxTotalChargeUsd and a run never costs more than you allow.
4. Ready to use. JSON, CSV or Excel, the Apify API, n8n, Make, Zapier, or as an MCP tool for AI agents.

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Click Try for free; the form opens with a ready example in Writers and Publications.
2. Optional: add tags, keywords or a date; every field has a description.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

FAQ

Do I need a Medium account or API key? No.

Can I get member-only (paywalled) stories? You get what Medium's public feed shows; for member-only stories that is usually the beginning of the story.

Can I search all of Medium by keyword? Medium's search is behind a Cloudflare check. Use tags and the keyword filter instead.

Can I call it from code? Yes: Apify API, Python and JavaScript clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, or as an MCP tool.

All input fields

The main fields are described above; these are the others the form accepts:

• feedUrls (Other Medium feed or site links) — Any Medium-hosted site or feed link. Read like a publication.
• includeHtml (Include the article HTML) — Adds the original HTML of each article (with images and links) next to the plain text.
• publishedAfter (Published after (YYYY-MM-DD)) — Keep only articles published on or after this date.