# Medium Public Post Parser Script (`hello.datawizards/medium-public-post-parser-script`) Actor

“A powerful Apify Actor that intelligently parses and extracts clean, structured content from Medium articles. It captures titles, authors, metadata, images, publishers, and fully cleaned article text, delivering accurate, ready-to-use datasets for automation and analysis.”

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hello.datawizards/medium-public-post-parser-script.md
- **Developed by:** [datawizards](https://apify.com/hello.datawizards) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Social media
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 23 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $8.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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## 📦 Medium Public Post Parser Script · Apify Actor

Extract **clean, structured, SEO-friendly Medium article data** — including title, author, publication date, cover image, publisher info, and fully parsed article text blocks.
Built and maintained by **[DataWizards](https://linkedin.com/in/data-wizards-aa8080342)**.

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### 📌 What Is `Medium Public Post Parser Script`?

The **Medium Public Post Parser Script** Apify Actor is a powerful tool that scrapes **public Medium articles** directly from their URLs.
Whether you're performing research, generating datasets for NLP/AI training, or analyzing authors and publishers, this actor delivers **clean, enriched JSON output** with:

- Article metadata
- Author & publisher info
- Cover image
- Publication timestamps
- Fully extracted article sections (“Clean Data”)

This actor is perfect for developers, researchers, digital marketers, OSINT specialists, and AI engineers who want reliable, structured Medium article content.

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### 🧠 Key Features

✔️ Extracts **full Medium article metadata**
✔️ Gets **article title, description, hero image, author, and publisher**
✔️ Pulls **complete article body** into “Clean Data” array
✔️ Supports multiple Medium URLs at once
✔️ Built-in proxy support (**RESIDENTIAL** recommended)
✔️ Clean, structured JSON output ready for analytics or ML training
✔️ Fast, stable, and highly scalable

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### 🛠️ Input Schema

```json
{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "ListingUrls": [
    "https://busk3r.medium.com/intercept-traffic-of-proxy-unaware-applications-in-burpsuite-eeb1ac329a87",
    "https://busk3r.medium.com/proxying-burp-traffic-through-vps-using-socks-proxy-b9abcc671aed"
  ]
}
```

#### 🔐 Proxy Configuration

- **useApifyProxy**: Must be `true`
- **RESIDENTIAL IPs** recommended for the highest success rate
- Avoid datacenter proxies for large crawls — Medium can rate-limit quickly

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### 📤 Output Example

Here’s a shortened sample (your script returns much more detail):

```json
[
  {
    "URL": "https://busk3r.medium.com/intercept-traffic-of-proxy-unaware-applications-in-burpsuite-eeb1ac329a87",
    "Title": "Intercept Traffic of Proxy Unaware Applications in BurpSuite",
    "Image URL": "https://miro.medium.com/1*eueIZblJ_HPx0rmoh0F3yQ.jpeg",
    "Author name": "Nishith K",
    "Publisher": "Medium",
    "Visit Publisher Website": "https://medium.com",
    "Publisher Logo URL": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:500/7%2AV1_7XP4snlmqrc_0Njontw.png",
    "Published Date": "2023-04-10T13:17:57Z",
    "Description": "Intercept Traffic of Proxy Unaware Applications in BurpSuite...",
    "Clean Data": [
      "Intercept Traffic of Proxy Unaware Applications in BurpSuite",
      "Nishith K",
      "6 min read",
      "Problem Statement",
      "Oftentimes we come across such mobile applications..."
    ]
  }
]
```

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### 🚀 Use Cases

🧠 **AI & NLP Training**
Extract full article content for language models, summarizers, and classifiers.

📊 **SEO & Content Analytics**
Analyze writing patterns, author performance, topic clusters, and metadata.

🔍 **OSINT & Research**
Gather structured intelligence on public blogs and cybersecurity articles.

📰 **Content Aggregation**
Build newsletters, dashboards, and curated knowledge bases.

🤖 **Automation Workflows**
Feed structured Medium content into internal tools, APIs, or pipelines.

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### ✅ Best Practices

✔️ Always use **RESIDENTIAL proxies** for stability
✔️ Provide **complete Medium URLs** (avoid redirects)
✔️ Start with smaller batches (10–20 URLs) when scaling
✔️ Store “Clean Data” arrays — perfect for NLP and semantic search
✔️ Avoid scraping paywalled or member-only content, as this actor supports **public posts only**

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### ⚙️ Advanced Tips for Power Users

⭐ Integrate with Apify Webhooks to process articles automatically
⭐ Feed extracted text into vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant)
⭐ Perform topic modeling using LDA / embeddings
⭐ Combine with scheduling for daily/weekly Medium monitoring
⭐ Transform Clean Data into Markdown, PDF, or blog-ready output

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### 🙌 Support

Need customization? More fields? Cleaner structured text?
**DataWizards is always ready for you.**

📩 Email: **<hello.datawizard@gmail.com>**
✉️ **Subject**: `Medium Public Post Parser Script – Custom Support`
🔗 Connect: **<https://linkedin.com/in/data-wizards-aa8080342>**

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### 🧰 Request Custom / Simplified Outputs

Want article content merged into a single field?
Want author stats?
Need integration with your internal system?

Just tell us — we build **custom scrapers, pipelines, and data automation**.

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### 🐞 Feedback & Bug Reports

Found a bug or want new features?

📧 Email: **<hello.datawizard@gmail.com>**
✉️ **Subject**: `Bug Report – Medium Public Post Parser Script`

Or submit an issue directly via Apify.

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### 🔍 SEO Keywords (Optional)

`Medium scraper`, `Medium article extractor`, `Medium API alternative`,
`Apify Medium Actor`, `blog scraper`, `Medium content parser`,
`SEO content extractor`, `structured Medium JSON`,
`NLP training data Medium`, `cybersecurity blog scraper`

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### 🏁 Start scraping smarter with **Medium Public Post Parser Script** — the easiest and cleanest way to extract full Medium article data like a pro.

# Actor input Schema

## `ListingUrls` (type: `array`):

The listing urls for the spider.

## `itemLimit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of items to scrape. Use 0 for no limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Specifies proxy servers that will be used by the scraper in order to hide its origin.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "ListingUrls": [
    "https://busk3r.medium.com/intercept-traffic-of-proxy-unaware-applications-in-burpsuite-eeb1ac329a87",
    "https://busk3r.medium.com/proxying-burp-traffic-through-vps-using-socks-proxy-b9abcc671aed"
  ],
  "itemLimit": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "itemLimit": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hello.datawizards/medium-public-post-parser-script").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 = {
    "itemLimit": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hello.datawizards/medium-public-post-parser-script").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "itemLimit": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call hello.datawizards/medium-public-post-parser-script --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hello.datawizards/medium-public-post-parser-script"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Fh9j7RQy6LwbCL2ui/builds/XihKIh5hG3MNyZeZL/openapi.json