# Medium Profile Scraper - Cheap ✍️🔍 (`contactminerlabs/medium-profile-scraper---cheap`) Actor

✍️ This Scraper lets you extract profiles from Medium

Perfect for building targeted writer lists, influencer outreach campaigns, partnership discovery & connecting directly with authors, founders & thought leaders

Built for content research, trend discovery & publishing intelligence on Medium 📊🔥

- **URL**: https://apify.com/contactminerlabs/medium-profile-scraper---cheap.md
- **Developed by:** [ContactMinerLabs](https://apify.com/contactminerlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$19.89/month + usage

To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period.You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#rental-actors

## What's an Apify Actor?

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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### Medium Profile Scraper ✍️🔍

Extract Medium author profiles in bulk using keyword-based search.

The Medium Profile Scraper allows you to search and collect public writer profiles and their articles from Medium using targeted keywords such as AI, startup, crypto, marketing, product management, and more.

Perfect for content research, influencer discovery, outreach campaigns, lead generation, and market intelligence in the publishing ecosystem.

***

### 🔍 Features

✅ Search Medium profiles by keywords

✅ Automatically detect author handles from article URLs

✅ Extract article titles and links

✅ Collect profile URLs for each author

✅ Configurable max unique authors per keyword

✅ Bulk keyword support

✅ Export in JSON, CSV, or Excel

🚫 No proxy required

***

### 📊 Data Extracted

For each discovered Medium author and article:

| Field          | Description                             |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `handle`       | Medium author handle (e.g. @username)   |
| `profileUrl`   | Direct author profile link              |
| `articleTitle` | Title of the article found              |
| `articleUrl`   | Direct article URL                      |
| `snippet`      | Search result snippet / article preview |
| `keyword`      | Search keyword used                     |
| `platform`     | Platform source (Medium)                |
| `thumbnail`    | Article thumbnail image (if available)  |

***

### 🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Enter one or multiple keywords

Example:

AI

startup funding

crypto trends

product management

2️⃣ Set maximum number of unique authors per keyword

3️⃣ Run the scraper

4️⃣ Export results in JSON, CSV, or Excel

***

### 💸 Pricing

The scraper runs on a **monthly subscription model**, pay only for successful runs.

💳 **Price:** $19.89 / month

***

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### ⚙️ Input Configuration Example

#### Input Example

```
{
  "KEYWORDS": ["AI", "startup"],
  "MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD": 20
}

```

#### Input Fields

| Field                   | Type    | Description                                         |
| ----------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `KEYWORDS`              | Array   | List of keywords to search for Medium profiles      |
| `MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD` | Integer | Maximum number of unique Medium authors per keyword |

***

### 📤 Output Example

```
{
  "handle": "@techinsider",
  "profileUrl": "https://medium.com/@techinsider",
  "articleTitle": "The Future of AI in Startups",
  "articleUrl": "https://medium.com/@techinsider/the-future-of-ai-in-startups-123abc",
  "snippet": "Artificial Intelligence is transforming early-stage startups...",
  "keyword": "AI",
  "platform": "Medium",
  "thumbnail": "https://miro.medium.com/example.jpg"
}

```

***

### 🌐 Why Use This Scraper?

✍️ Content Research – Discover top writers by niche

📢 Outreach Campaigns – Connect with relevant authors

📊 Market Intelligence – Analyze trending topics

🚀 Influencer Discovery – Identify thought leaders

🤖 Automation Ready – Schedule recurring keyword scans

***

### 🌐 Built-in Views

Interactive table including:

Handle

Profile URL

Article Title

Article URL

Snippet

Keyword

Thumbnail

All views are exportable to:

✅ JSON
✅ CSV
✅ Excel

### Disclaimer

This tool extracts only publicly available information and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Bluesky.

### 📫 Support & Contact

😊 Leave a **5-star rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐** if you’re satisfied

🌪️ **Storm Scraper**
<https://apify.com/scrapestorm>

For questions, feature requests, or custom scraping needs, contact us directly via **Apify** or by email.

# Actor input Schema

## `KEYWORDS` (type: `array`):

List of keywords to search for Medium profiles. One DuckDuckGo search is performed per keyword. Profiles are extracted from @handle article URLs found in results.

## `MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of unique Medium profiles (authors) to extract per keyword.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "KEYWORDS": [
    "AI"
  ],
  "MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "KEYWORDS": [
        "AI"
    ],
    "MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("contactminerlabs/medium-profile-scraper---cheap").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "KEYWORDS": ["AI"],
    "MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("contactminerlabs/medium-profile-scraper---cheap").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "KEYWORDS": [
    "AI"
  ],
  "MAX_ITEMS_PER_KEYWORD": 10
}' |
apify call contactminerlabs/medium-profile-scraper---cheap --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=contactminerlabs/medium-profile-scraper---cheap",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dGCyQOXufqS4hrZkx/builds/WfBSHdYAqrMNFGgwq/openapi.json