Medium Scraper

An Apify actor that scrapes content from Medium articles, including those behind the subscription paywall. It extracts structured data from a post using its unique ID.

Key Features

• Bypasses Paywall: Accesses full article content even when Medium shows a "Subscribe now" restriction.
• Extracts Complete Data: Retrieves the article title, author details, publication date, reading time, full content, tags, clap count, and more.
• Structured JSON Output: Returns all data in a consistent JSON format for easy parsing and integration.

How to Use

Run the actor via the Apify Console or API. The only required input is the Medium post ID.

Getting the Post ID

The post ID is the alphanumeric string at the end of a Medium article URL.

1. Take a URL: https://medium.com/@user/article-title-f0e702d131ce
2. Extract the ID after the final dash: f0e702d131ce

Input

Provide the post_id as input to the actor.

{
  "post_id": "f0e702d131ce"
}

Output

The actor returns a detailed JSON object for the post. Key fields include:

• id: The post ID.
• title: The article title.
• creator: An object containing author details (username, name, bio, follower counts).
• firstPublishedAt: Publication timestamp.
• readingTime: Estimated reading time in minutes.
• clapCount: Number of claps.
• previewContent.subtitle: The article subtitle.
• mediumUrl: The canonical URL of the post.
• tags: An array of associated tags.
• highlights: Contains any code blocks or quoted text from the article.

A condensed example of the output structure:

{
  "id": "f0e702d131ce",
  "title": "How I got RCE on redbull from recon (CVE-2025–30406)",
  "creator": {
    "username": "mchklt",
    "name": "ABDELKARIM MOUCHQUELITA",
    "bio": "in allah we trust, the rest we test. www.mchklt.com"
  },
  "firstPublishedAt": 1753990580549,
  "readingTime": 1.4,
  "clapCount": 606,
  "mediumUrl": "https://mchklt.medium.com/how-i-got-rce-on-redbull-from-recon-cve-2025-30406-f0e702d131ce",
  "tags": [
    { "id": "cybersecurity" }
  ]
}