Medium Scraper — Articles, Authors, Tags & Full Text

Scrape Medium articles by keyword, author profile, or tag and get clean article metadata for content research, SEO monitoring, competitor intelligence, newsletter curation, and LLM/RAG pipelines.

Price: $0.005 per scraped article ($5 per 1,000 results). No Medium login required.

What this Actor does

This Actor helps you turn Medium into a structured dataset:

• Search Medium by keyword or topic
• Scrape author/profile article lists
• Scrape tag pages such as artificial-intelligence, startup, or product-management
• Extract titles, URLs, authors, publication metadata, tags, claps, reading time, and article text/preview when available
• Export structured JSON from Apify datasets for downstream automation

Common use cases

1. Content research and topic monitoring

Track what people publish around a topic like AI agents, SaaS pricing, product growth, or developer tools.

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "AI agents",
  "maxItems": 50
}

2. Competitor and publication monitoring

Monitor a Medium publication or author profile for new articles and messaging shifts.

{
  "mode": "author",
  "authorUrl": "https://medium.com/@example",
  "maxItems": 25
}

3. SEO and content gap research

Collect recent articles for a tag, then analyze titles, angles, and repeated keywords.

{
  "mode": "tag",
  "tag": "startup",
  "maxItems": 100
}

4. Feed an LLM / RAG workflow

Use the output as source material for summarization, trend reports, newsletter drafts, or an internal knowledge base.

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "founder lessons",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Input

The exact fields available in the Apify input UI may vary by version, but the typical workflow is:

Field	Description
mode	Search, author/profile, or tag scraping mode
query	Keyword/search phrase for Medium search
authorUrl	Medium author/profile/publication URL
tag	Medium tag slug, e.g. artificial-intelligence
maxItems	Maximum number of articles to return

Output

Each dataset item typically contains fields like:

{
  "title": "Example Medium Article",
  "url": "https://medium.com/...",
  "author": "Author Name",
  "publication": "Publication Name",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-15",
  "readingTime": "5 min read",
  "claps": 123,
  "tags": ["AI", "Startups"],
  "text": "Article text or preview when available",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-15T17:00:00Z"
}

Actual fields depend on what Medium exposes for the page at crawl time.

Pricing examples

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: $0.005 per scraped article.

• 100 articles for a topic scan → about $0.50
• 1,000 articles for a research dataset → about $5.00
• Daily monitoring of 20 articles/day → about $3.00/month

You only pay for successful scraped article events.

Notes and limitations

• Medium can change page layouts or limit access to some content.
• Some articles may expose only previews, depending on Medium availability and page structure.
• For best reliability, prefer focused searches/tags and reasonable maxItems values.
• If you need full historical coverage, run multiple targeted searches rather than one broad query.

Who is this for?

• Content marketers tracking trends and competitors
• SEO researchers building topic maps
• Founders monitoring product/category narratives
• Analysts collecting qualitative market signals
• Developers feeding Medium content into LLM workflows