Medium Data API
Pull Medium post content, author profiles, publication data, tag feeds, and full-text search — all via Anysite's structured REST API. No Medium account or API key required.
What Medium data unlocks
Medium hosts millions of articles across technology, business, self-improvement, design, and data science — each with rich structured metadata: author, publication, clap count, response count, reading time, tags, and a paywall flag. Getting that data at scale — across specific publications, authors, or tags — without building scrapers that break on session rotation has historically been difficult. Anysite's Medium endpoints give you ten structured access points covering post retrieval, author discovery, publication intelligence, tag-based feeds, and keyword search. The full post text is available on the /posts endpoint — useful for content pipelines, research tools, and editorial dashboards.
All Medium Endpoints
Ten endpoints across posts, publications, users, and tags. All return structured JSON via the Anysite REST API at /api/medium/....
| Endpoint | What It Returns |
|---|---|
/api/medium/posts |
Full post data by post ID or URL — title, subtitle, full text, tags, images, clap count, response count, word count, reading time, paywall flag, author profile, and publication details. |
/api/medium/posts/responses |
Responses (threaded comments) on a post — each response with its own author, content, clap count, and timestamps. |
/api/medium/posts/search |
Keyword search across Medium posts — returns post cards with title, author, publication, clap count, reading time, tags, and paywall flag. |
/api/medium/publications |
Publication profile by slug or URL — name, description, tagline, logo, follower count, tags, custom domain, and social handles (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). |
/api/medium/publications/posts |
Posts within a given publication — ordered feed of post cards with title, author, clap count, reading time, and paywall status. |
/api/medium/publications/search |
Search publications by keyword — publication cards with name, description, follower count, and topic tags. |
/api/medium/tags/posts |
Latest posts for a given tag — post cards with title, subtitle, author, publication, clap count, reading time, and paywall flag. Supports any tag slug (e.g. python, machine-learning, startups). |
/api/medium/users |
User profile by username — name, bio, follower count, following count, post count, top writer tags, and social handles. |
/api/medium/users/posts |
Posts by a specific user — feed of that author's articles with clap counts, reading times, and publication affiliation. |
/api/medium/users/search |
Search Medium users by keyword — user cards with name, bio, follower count, and post count. |
What You Can Build
Content research pipelines
Search Medium posts by keyword with /posts/search and fetch full text with /posts to build content gap analyses, topic clustering models, or editorial research tools — without scraping or session management.
Publication intelligence
Discover publications in a niche with /publications/search, then track follower counts and post velocity via /publications/posts over time — useful for competitive benchmarking and partnership research.
Author discovery and outreach
Find prolific writers in your domain with /users/search and inspect their output via /users/posts — ideal for identifying contributors, influencers, or potential hires based on published work and audience size.
Tag-based content monitoring
Poll /tags/posts on a schedule to track the latest articles in any tag (e.g. llm, rust, vc) — useful for trend monitoring, newsletter curation, or competitive awareness feeds.
Quick Start
Search for recent posts on a topic, then fetch a post's full text and its responses.
# Search Medium for posts about "large language models" (top 10)
curl https://api.anysite.io/api/medium/posts/search -H "access-token: YOUR_KEY" -d '{"query":"large language models","count":10}'
# Get the full text of a specific post by ID
curl https://api.anysite.io/api/medium/posts -H "access-token: YOUR_KEY" -d '{"post":"ba0ad5190f16"}'
# Get latest posts tagged "python" (top 20)
curl https://api.anysite.io/api/medium/tags/posts -H "access-token: YOUR_KEY" -d '{"tag":"python","count":20}'Plans
Every endpoint is included in all Anysite plans — there's no per-endpoint pricing to track. Use MCP Unlimited for flat-rate access through your AI tools, or a credit plan for REST & CLI at scale.
Frequently Asked Questions
/api/medium/posts endpoint returns the complete article text in the text field, along with the title, subtitle, author, tags, clap count, reading time, and paywall status.is_member_only flag is returned on every post record so you can filter programmatically. Whether full content is accessible depends on the post's member-only status — the flag lets you handle this in your application logic.ba0ad5190f16 from https://medium.com/@author/title-ba0ad5190f16) or the full post URL. Both formats are accepted by /api/medium/posts.programming, python, machine-learning, startup, design, data-science. Pass the slug exactly as it appears in Medium tag URLs (e.g. https://medium.com/tag/python → slug python).Related Endpoints
Start querying Medium data today
Post content, author profiles, publication data, tag feeds, and keyword search — via REST, MCP, or CLI. No Medium account required.