Medium Blog Scraper

Extract articles from Medium by topic via RSS feed. Get titles, authors, author URLs, article URLs, tags, publication date, publication name, summary, cover images, language, claps, and reading time — clean JSON, no Cloudflare issues.

Sample output

{
  "title": "AWS Compute Options: Lambda and ECS",
  "author": "Rhuturaj Takle",
  "authorUrl": "https://medium.com/@rhutu.takle",
  "authorImageUrl": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/...",
  "url": "https://medium.com/@rhutu.takle/aws-compute-options-lambda-and-ecs-be23da0a096d",
  "tags": ["devops", "programming", "learning", "aws"],
  "publishedDate": "Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:31:58 GMT",
  "updatedDate": "2026-07-14T16:31:58.837Z",
  "publication": "",
  "summary": "A practical guide to two of AWS's core compute services — Lambda for serverless, event-driven code execution, and ECS for orchestrating…",
  "topicUrl": "https://medium.com/feed/tag/programming",
  "imageUrl": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/...",
  "language": "en",
  "claps": 347,
  "readingTime": "5 min read",
  "readingTimeMinutes": 5,
  "subtitle": "A comparison of AWS Lambda and ECS for different workloads",
  "responsesCount": 12,
  "type": "article",
  "source": "medium"
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
topic	string	programming	Medium topic tag (e.g. programming, ai, technology) or full Medium/custom domain URL
maxResults	integer	10	Max articles (1-50)
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Fetch article pages for claps, images, reading time (slower but richer)
detailConcurrency	integer	5	Concurrent detail fetches (1-20)

How it works

Two-phase extraction:

1. RSS feed (medium.com/feed/tag/{topic}) — returns structured XML with titles, authors, tags, dates, and summaries. Fast and not blocked by anti-bot. Supports full URLs and custom domains.
2. Article pages (one HTTP request per article) — extracts actual clap counts, images, author avatars, language, and reading time from the article HTML.

Use cases

• Content curation for newsletters
• Trend analysis in tech topics
• Competitive research
• Building reading lists by topic
• Monitoring new articles in your niche

Pricing

$0.0005 per article ($0.50 per 1k articles).