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Medium Followers Scraper 🔍

🤖 What does Medium Followers Scraper do?

This actor allows you to extract detailed information about followers of any Medium user. It efficiently scrapes follower data while respecting Medium's platform guidelines and provides structured, ready-to-use data.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Extract followers data from any Medium profile
• 👥 Get detailed user information including name, bio, and membership status
• 📊 Control the number of results with maxItems parameter
• 🚀 Fast and efficient data collection
• 🔄 Handles pagination automatically
• 💾 Provides clean, structured JSON output

📋 Output Dataset

For each follower, the actor extracts:

• User ID
• Full name
• Username
• Bio description
• Profile URL
• Profile image URL
• Medium membership tier
• Book author verification status

💡 Use Cases

• 📈 Audience analysis and insights
• 🎯 Influencer marketing research
• 👥 Community engagement tracking
• 📊 Content strategy development
• 🔍 Competitor analysis

💪 Input Parameters

• usernames (Array): List of Medium usernames to scrape followers from (e.g., ["mariaspantidi"])
• maxItems (Number): Maximum number of followers to collect per username

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
"usernames":[
"mariaspantidi"
],
"maxItems":30
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
{
"id":"0363c81e1e79",
"name":"Sharon Collins",
"username":"sharon-collins",
"bio":"🌱 Lifelong learner and growth advocate, sharing stories on self-improvement, relationships, and business insights. Let's thrive together!",
"profileUrl":"https://medium.com/@sharon-collins",
"imageUrl":"https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1*uo8vrlueCXf92tRt3Qgx_g.jpeg",
"membershipTier":"MEMBER",
"isBookAuthor":false
},
{
"id":"057746e5dca1",
"name":"EvolveNow",
"username":"evolvenow",
"bio":"Empowering Minds | Elevating Consciousness 🌟 Exploring the depths of holistic wellness, spirituality, and self-mastery. Check the section \"About\"",
"profileUrl":"https://medium.com/@evolvenow",
"imageUrl":"https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1*mqoBMzdMYTuKM1H81HJM4Q.jpeg",
"membershipTier":"MEMBER",
"isBookAuthor":false
},
...
]