Medium Articles Feed: Tags, Authors and Publications

Keep up with Medium without opening it. Give the actor any mix of tags, authors and publications (including publications on their own domain, such as netflixtechblog.com) and it returns their latest stories as clean rows: title, link, author, publish date, tags, reading time, lead image and the article text where Medium provides it.

The actor reads Medium's own public RSS feeds, the same feeds that news readers use. No login, no member only content, no browser, no proxies. It respects robots.txt, including rules that name Apify.

What you can use it for

• Content monitoring: watch the topics and writers in your field every hour or every day, and push new stories to Slack, a sheet or a newsletter.
• Competitor and brand tracking: follow the engineering or company blogs your competitors publish on Medium.
• AI and RAG pipelines: feed the full text of author and publication stories into a summary or search tool.
• Trend research: see which tags new stories carry and how long they are.
• AI agents: one clear job with simple inputs, so an agent can answer "what did the Netflix tech blog publish this week?"

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Tags	artificial-intelligence, programming, or a tag link	none
Authors	@handle, a profile link, or https://name.medium.com	none
Publications	A slug (towards-data-science), a link, or a custom domain (netflixtechblog.com)	none
Only stories published after	Skip older stories (they are not charged)	none
Include article text	Plain text of each story	on
Include article HTML	Medium's HTML with images and links	off
Maximum articles	Stop after this many rows	500

Example input:

{
  "tags": ["artificial-intelligence", "startup"],
  "authors": ["@netflixtechblog"],
  "publications": ["towards-data-science", "netflixtechblog.com"],
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01",
  "includeContent": true
}

Output

One row per story. The same story found in two feeds is saved once.

{
  "feedType": "author",
  "feed": "@netflixtechblog",
  "feedTitle": "Stories by Netflix Technology Blog on Medium",
  "title": "Running Apache Spark experiments in my sleep (and on a plane)",
  "url": "https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/running-apache-spark-experiments-in-my-sleep-and-on-a-plane-588816b6b5f8",
  "articleId": "588816b6b5f8",
  "author": "Netflix Technology Blog",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-31T09:01:03.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-31T09:01:03.574Z",
  "tags": ["apache-spark", "performance-optimization", "generative-ai-tools", "data-pipeline"],
  "isFullText": true,
  "wordCount": 2007,
  "readingTimeMinutes": 8,
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1020/1*XXIKbAHpGvPtFzHcDL8Kcg.png",
  "text": "As one of Netflix's largest and critical data pipelines...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-27T06:59:12.637Z"
}

isFullText tells you whether Medium put the whole story in the feed (usual for author and publication feeds) or only a preview (usual for tag feeds). Feeds that fail (a misspelled name, a site that is not a Medium publication) are listed in RUN_SUMMARY in the run's key value store and cost nothing.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription, no charge for platform usage on top.

Event	Price
Article saved	$0.001 (one dollar per 1,000 articles)

Example: following 20 tags and writers every day saves at most 200 stories a day, about $0.20 a day; with "Only stories published after" set to the last run, you pay only for new stories. Set a maximum charge per run in Apify and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Limits

• Medium's feeds carry the latest 10 stories per tag, author or publication. This actor is built for monitoring what is new, not for downloading an author's whole archive. Run it on a schedule to build a history.
• Tag feeds carry a short preview, not the full text. Author and publication feeds usually carry the full story.
• Member only stories appear with whatever Medium puts in the public feed; the actor never logs in.
• Medium search pages are not read, because Medium's robots.txt disallows them.
• Clap counts and responses are not in the feeds, so they are not in the output.

FAQ

Do I need a Medium account? No. The feeds are public.

Why only 10 stories per feed? That is how many Medium publishes in each RSS feed. Add more tags, authors and publications, or schedule the actor, to collect more.

Can I use it with custom domain publications? Yes. Enter the domain, for example netflixtechblog.com, and the actor reads its /feed.

Is the author a person's name? It is the story's public byline as shown on Medium. The actor does not collect profiles, followers or contact details.

Is this affiliated with Medium? No. It is an independent tool that reads Medium's public RSS feeds.