Medium scrapers compared

Charged for each Medium article extracted.

• Run started (start)

Price per 1000 outputs is $2

One article row written to the dataset: claps, clappers, responses, reading time, member-only flag, tags, claps per 1,000 author followers and comparison with the author's median. Articles dropped by your filters are never charged.

• Scraped profile (profile-scraped)

One validated, deduplicated item pushed to the dataset

• Monitor check (monitor-check)
• Changed item (change)

Single result in the default dataset.

• Result extracted (scraped)

Per Medium article row saved to the dataset

• Start (start)

One post returned (after your filters). Filtered-out posts, posts already seen in only-new-posts mode, sources without a feed and invalid lines are free.

• Full text from the post page (full-text)

One Medium article with title, URL, author, publication, date, tags, full text and HTML (free stories), word count, reading time and image.

Single result in the default dataset.

Single result in the default dataset.

Single result in the default dataset.

One Medium article saved to the dataset. Never charged: articles that no longer exist, articles your filters leave out, repeats and error records.

One post row: title, date, claps, responses, reading time, word count, member-only flag, author, publication, tags and link (plus the text of free posts when asked). Not-found inputs and posts skipped by onlyNew are free.

One Medium article with title, subtitle, author and follower count, publication, published and updated dates, claps, responses, reading time, word count, tags and image. A source with no articles is free.

• Article with text (article_text)

Charged once per Medium post returned in the dataset. A feed that does not exist, a feed with no posts, and a monitoring run with nothing new are never charged.

Charged once per row stored in the dataset.

• Story (story)

One Medium story with title, subtitle, author and followers, publication, publish date, claps, responses, reading time, word count, tags and member-only flag.

• Story full text (post-text)

One Medium article with metadata, and full text when content is on

• Response (response)

Charged for each article saved (title, subtitle, author, publication, date, reading time, claps, responses, tags, member-only flag and, when chosen, the text or free preview).

• Author (author)
• Publication (publication)

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Charged for each item written to the dataset.

• Actor start (actor-start)

One record delivered to the dataset.

Charged for each Medium article returned.

Charged once per unique article delivered (metadata: title, author, publication, date, claps, responses, reading time, tags). Error rows, duplicates and articles outside the date filter are never charged.

• Article text (texto-entregue)

One Medium publication with subscribers, posting cadence, engagement medians, member-only share, top authors and tags.

Charged once for each article row delivered. Sources Medium has nothing for cost nothing beyond the run start.

• Actor start (actor-start)

Each story pushed to the dataset

One Medium article in the dataset. Failed inputs are free.

Charged for every item successfully extracted.

An article record returned by the scraper.

• Article With Stats (details)

One delivered public Medium story row from a public feed: title, canonical URL, author, tags, publish time, teaser and — on author/publication feeds — the full public body text. An invalid or unknown tag/author/publication, a feed with no stories, an unresolvable post URL, and any blocked, 5xx or timeout fetch are free error rows and are never charged.

One row for a Medium post found in the public RSS feed of an author, publication or tag: title, author, publish date, URL, tags, summary, whether the feed carries the full text and its length and, when asked for and carried by the feed, the text itself. In monitoring mode only posts that are new since the last run are returned. Names Medium does not know, feeds that could not be read or are disallowed by robots.txt, empty feeds and runs with no new post come back as their own rows and are not charged.

• Monitoring check (source-checked)

One Medium article saved to the dataset.

One Medium article record (metadata, and full content on author/publication feeds)

One result delivered by Medium Article & Publication Scraper.

One Medium article row in the dataset

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• Medium article extracted (article_extracted)