medium-api 0.6.1
Python Wrapper on top of Medium API to quickly extract data from https://medium.com.
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.6

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Medium API (Unofficial)
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        :target: https://nishu-jain.medium.com
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Python Wrapper on top of `Unofficial Medium API <http://hub.mediumapi.com>`_ to quickly extract data from Medium's website (https://medium.com).

Installation
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Install from `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/medium-api/>`_

.. code-block:: console

        $ pip install medium-api


| For more information, see `Detailed Installation <https://medium-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html>`_

Example
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Getting a Medium user's information and fetching his articles.

.. code-block:: python

        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 <https://medium-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html>`_ 

How to get your RapidAPI Key
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Steps:

        - Sign up on `RapidAPI Platform <https://rapidapi.com/auth/sign-up>`_
        - Subscribe to our `Unofficial Medium-API <http://hub.mediumapi.com/pricing>`_
        - Click on any of API's Endpoints on the `RapidAPI Hub listing <http://hub.mediumapi.com>` and select the API key from the **X-RapidAPI-Key** header under *App* section.

For more detailed step by step guide, see:

        - https://mediumapi.com/how-to-subscribe-to-medium-api.html

Features
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Extract/Scrape/Fetch/Get:
  
    - Medium User's information and User-written Articles
    - Medium User's Followers and Following
    - Medium User's Publications and Books
    - Medium Articles information
    - Medium Article's Textual Content and Markdown and HTML
    - 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)
    - Medium's Recommended Feed, Users and Lists


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

Other Materials
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Medium REST API:

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

.. Related Articles:

..         - `Medium API - Documentation <https://medium.com/p/90a01549d8db>`_
..         - `Medium API: Get Posts Using Python <https://medium.com/p/126d6d859ca8>`_
..         - `Authenticate Medium Users Using Medium API <https://medium.com/p/ed7c1c1bcd66>`_
..         - `Medium Notification Service <https://medium.com/p/ff6369938b63>`_
..         - `How To List Hundreds of Niche Top Writers of Medium <https://medium.com/p/78e426bb7b39>`_
..         - `How To Retrieve Medium Stories of a User Using API? <https://medium.com/p/fcdb1576558a>`_
..         - `Medium API: Get Posts Using Node.js & Axios <https://medium.com/p/a43894efaeab>`_

.. Miscellaneous Articles:

..         - `Best Metric to Judge a Medium Article's Popularity <https://medium.com/p/cac577609bd4>`_
..         - `How To Leverage Medium for Crypto-trading <https://medium.com/p/deedea890da1>`_

License
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Free software: `MIT license <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weeping-angel/medium-api/main/LICENSE>`_

EULA: `Terms of Use <https://medium-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/terms_of_use.html>`_

Code of Conduct
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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/