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Medium Scraper

Scrape Medium and collect the following publicly available data points: articles, profiles, following list, followers list, images, comments, recommended, categories, and blog.

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Medium Scraper use cases

  • Identify trends
  • Gather engagement information
  • Extract author data
  • Scrape whole categories

 

Medium Scraper Overview

  • Data scraping with no infrastructure needed
  • Integrates with our industry-leading proxy services
  • Exclusive site unlocking technology
  • Scale quickly – gather as much data as you need quickly and reliably
  • Bright Data is fully compliant with all relevant data protection legal requirements, including GDPR and CCPA.

 

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Web Scraper IDE Features

Leave your scraping limitations behind with our hosted cloud solution
Pre-made web scraper templates
Get started quickly and adapt existing code to your specific needs
Interactive preview
Watch your code as you build it and debug errors in your code quickly
Built-in debug tools
Debug what happened in a past crawl to understand what needs fixing in the next version
Browser scripting in JavaScript

Handle your browser control and parsing codes with simple procedural JavaScript

Ready-made functions

Capture browser network calls, configure a proxy, extract data from lazy loading UI, and more!

Easy parser creation

Write your parsers in cheerio and run live previews to see what data it produced

Auto-scaling infrastructure

You don’t need to invest in the hardware or software to manage an enterprise-grade web scraper

Integration

Emulate a user in any geo-location with built-in fingerprinting, automated retries, CAPTCHA solving, and more.

Built-in debug tools

Trigger crawls on a schedule or by API, and connect our API to major storage platforms

What are the use cases of Medium scraped data?

  • Easily find popular topics and articles by scraping titles and tags
  • Analyze the writing tone and sentiment by scraping full articles
  • Research the performance of your own publications by scraping the engagement data on a daily or hourly basis
  • Build a knowledge base which relies on information scraped from Medium articles
  • Find the best writers to collaborate with
  • Train machine learning models by using texts from Medium
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