Medium Scraper

A read-only api for the Medium blogging platform to retrieve basic user information and the latest posts in one simple command.

I built this for the sole purpose of being able to display some of my latest blog posts on my personal site. So if you're looking for similar functionality, this should work well for you.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'medium_scraper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install medium_scraper

Usage

To retrieve an object with user and post information:

MediumScraper::Post.latest <username>

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/medium_scraper. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.