medium-api 0.4.4

Python Wrapper on top of Medium API to quickly extract data from https://medium.com.

Python Wrapper on top of Medium API to quickly extract data from Medium’s website (https://medium.com).

Installation

Install from PyPI

$ pip install medium-api

For more information, see Detailed Installation

Example

Getting a Medium user’s information and fetching his articles.

from medium_api import Medium

medium = Medium('YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY')

user = medium.user(username="nishu-jain")

print(f'{user.fullname} has {user.followers_count} followers.')

user.fetch_articles()
for article in user.articles:
        print(article.title)

For more examples, see Usage

How to get your RapidAPI Key

Steps:

• Sign up on RapidAPI Platform

• Subscribe to Medium-API

• Go to the API’s Endpoints tab on the RapidAPI Hub listing and select the API key from the X-RapidAPI-Key dropdown under Header Parameters section.

For more details, see the following links:

• https://rapidapi.com/blog/api-glossary/api-key/

• https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/keys

Features

Extract/Scrape/Fetch/Get:

• Medium User information and User-written Articles

• Medium User’s Followers and Following

• Medium Articles information

• Medium Article’s Textual Content and Markdown

• Medium Article’s Responses/Comments

• Medium Publications information

• Medium Publication’s Articles

• Medium Publication’s Newsletter Info

• Medium’s Top Writers

• Medium’s Topfeeds (Trending, Latest, All time best, best of year/month/week)

• Medium’s LatestPosts (distributed articles)

Documentation

Full Documentation at https://medium-api.readthedocs.io

Other Materials

Medium REST API:

• Swagger Documentation: https://docs.mediumapi.com

Related Articles:

• Medium API - Documentation

• Medium API: Get Posts Using Python

• Authenticate Medium Users Using Medium API

• Medium Notification Service

• How To List Hundreds of Niche Top Writers of Medium

• How To Retrieve Medium Stories of a User Using API?

• Medium API: Get Posts Using Node.js & Axios

Miscellaneous Articles:

• Best Metric to Judge a Medium Article’s Popularity

• How To Leverage Medium for Crypto-trading

License

Free software: MIT license

EULA: Terms of Use

Code of Conduct

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, all contributors, maintainers and users are expected to abide by the Python code of conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/