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Medium User Search Scraper 🔍

Scrape Medium user profiles from search results. Extract detailed information about Medium writers including their bio, membership status, and more! 📝

Use Cases 🎯

• Find and analyze Medium writers in specific niches
• Research potential collaborators or guest writers
• Track influential authors in your field of interest
• Build a database of Medium writers for outreach

Features ✨

• Search users by keywords
• Extract comprehensive user profile data
• Support for multiple search terms
• Configurable number of results

Input Parameters 📝

• keywords (Array): List of search terms to find Medium users
• maxItems (Number): Maximum number of user profiles to scrape

Tips for Optimal Results 💡

1. Use specific keywords to find relevant users
2. Adjust maxItems based on your needs
3. Consider running multiple searches with different keywords

Support 🤝

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please reach out through Apify's support channels.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
"keywords":[
"write"
],
"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":"2d196168bd00",
"name":"chel writes",
"username":"chelwrites",
"bio":"write articles and personal thoughts. publish drafts regularly. sometimes in english or indonesian :)",
"avatarUrl":"https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:96:96/1*5GUJnGMlifgnut6UmNvdng.jpeg",
"userUrl":"https://chelwrites.medium.com",
"isBookAuthor": false,
"isMember":false
},
{
"id":"11841531c264",
"name":"Jo Ann Harris, Writer of Daily Musings",
"username":"joannharris-53598",
"bio":"Writing on Medium since 2018. Writer for Illumination. I write on a myriad of subjects with you in mind.",
"avatarUrl":"https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:96:96/0*nZwiKx3sl_Wcu6yS.",
"userUrl":"https://joannharris-53598.medium.com",
"isBookAuthor": false,
"isMember":true
},
...
]