If you've ever tried to pull data from Medium programmatically, you already know the pain.

Medium retired their official API years ago. What's left is a graveyard of Stack Overflow threads, half-working scrapers, and a handful of third-party services with questionable reliability.

This article breaks down your three real options in 2026 — honestly, with code — so you can pick what actually fits your use case.

The Three Options

DIY scraping — build and maintain your own scraper