Welcome To Medium Scraper

🍂 About Medium.com

Medium is an American online publishing platform for written content such as articles and blogs, developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation.[2] The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium,[3] and is regularly regarded as a blog host.

Williams, who previously co-founded Blogger and Twitter,[4] initially developed Medium as a means to publish writings and documents longer than Twitter's 140-character (now 280-character) maximum.

In March 2021, Medium announced a change in its publishing strategy and business model, reducing its own publications and increasing support of independent writers.[5]

🍂 About This Actor

All-in-One tool for scraping Medium.com

🍂 Tutorial

🍿 Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
query	array	List of QUERY, KEYWORD or URL
limit	integer	Number of results per-query
filters	object	Various QUERY filters

🍿 Basic Usage

Search for Stories

{ "query": ["Web Scraping"], "limit": 10  }

Get a user info

{ "query": ["@elonmusk"] }

🍿 Advanced Usage

MEDIUM QUERY LANGUAGE (MEQL)

[ <COMMAND:> | # | @ ] [ <NAME> | <ID> | <KEYWORD> | <URL> ] [ /<SECTION> ]

Possible QUERY Values

Format	Example	Description
<KEYWORDS>	search terms	Search Anything
<KEYWORDS>	Python	Search for stories
users:<KEYWORDS>	users:john	Search for users/people
topics:<KEYWORDS>	topics:java	Search for topics
collections:<KEYWORDS>	collections:python	Search for publications (aka. collections)
lists:<KEYWORDS>	lists:apify	Search for lists
#<TOPIC> or tag:<TOPIC> or topic:<TOPIC>	#art tag:art topic:art	Topic/Tag Data
/posts	#art/posts	Archive
/recommended	#art/recommended	Recommended Stories
/people or /users	#art/people	Who to follow
post:<STORY_ID>	post:xxxxxxxx	Story/Post Data STORY-ID is 12 digits HEX
/info	post:xxxxxxxx/info	Post info/content
/comments	post:xxxxxxxx/comments	Post comments/responses
@<USER> or user:<USER>	@jancurn	User Data
/info	@jancurn/info	User info
/posts or /stories	@jancurn/posts	User posts/stories
/followers	@jancurn/followers	User followers
/following	@jancurn/following	User following
/collections	@jancurn/collections	User following(publications)
/lists	@jancurn/lists	User lists(catalogs)
list:<LIST>		List/Catalog Data
/info	list:xxxxx/info	Catalog info
/items	list:xxxxx/items	Catalog items
collection:<SLUG>	collection:python	Publication/Collection ex: https://medium.com/python
/info	collection:python/info	Publication info
/posts	collection:python/posts	Publication posts
/followers	collection:python/followers	Publication followers
https:<URL>	https://medium.com/...	Start URL
	/search?q=<KEYWORDS>	Search page
	/@<USER>	User profile
	/tag/<TAGNAME>/recommended	Topic recommended posts
	/tag/<TAGNAME>/archive/<year>/<month>	Topic posts archive
	https://<USER>.medium.com/...	User domain

🍂 INPUT Examples

🍿 Example #1: Searching

Search for Stories

{ "query": ["Web Scraping"], "limit": 10  }

Search for Users

{ "query": ["users:Python"], "limit": 10  }

🍿 Example #2: User Data

Get a user info

{ "query": ["@elonmusk"] }

Get a user posts (aka. stories)

{ "query": ["@elonmusk/posts"], "limit": 10 }

Get a user followers

{ "query": ["@elonmusk/followers"], "limit": 10 }

🍂 OUTPUT Samples

🍂 Support

Feel free to reach out to the developer for any issues or suggestions for improvement.