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Medium

MIT License

An easy to use API that could fetch most data from Medium with no authentication needed

Authors

Tech used:

  • Node JS / Express JS
  • Javascript

Api Link

https://medium-api-1.herokuapp.com/

Demo Link

Running the server locally

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/Lstsk/Medium-API.git
cd Medium-Api

Install dependencies

You would need to run this command every time a new dependency is installed.

npm install

Run the app:

npm run dev

Documentation

Table of contents

Publications

/api/posts/:pub_name

Response

/api/posts/towards-data-science

{
    "description": "Your home for data science. A Medium publication sharing concepts, ideas and codes.",
    "creatorId": "7e12c71dfa81",
    "followerCount": 640012,
    "tags": [
        "DATA SCIENCE",
        "MACHINE LEARNING",
        "PROGRAMMING",
        "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE",
        "EDITORS PICK"
    ],
    "twitterUsername": "TDataScience",
    "facebookPageName": "towardsdatascience",
    "instagramName": "towardsdatascience",
    "latest_posts": [
        {
            "id": "1b0ac2162c82",
            "title": "The Grammar of Graphics or how to do ggplot-style plotting in Julia",
            "subtitle": "Introduction to a comparison of Julia graphics packages for statistical plotting",
            "lang": "en",
            "wordCount": 1859,
            "readingTime": 8.415094339622641,
            "creatorId": "8ada39358e9d",
            "createdAit": 1659978176600,
            "updatedAt": 1660332957393,
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            "latestPublishedAt": 1660332952367
        },
        {
            "id": "478c10adc959",
            "title": "Black-box Hyperparameter Tuning in Python",
            "subtitle": "Comparing Brute Force and Black-box Optimization Methods in Python",
            "lang": "en",
            "wordCount": 2051,
            "readingTime": 9.089622641509434,
            "creatorId": "120b86134681",
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        },
        {
            "id": "7f9c8018c593",
            "title": "Sign Language to Text using Deep Learning",
            "subtitle": "An End-to-End Pipeline including model building, hyperparameter tuning and the deployment",
            "lang": "en",
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            "id": "3fcb0b7f47d6",
            "title": "A guide to making the best ML pipeline using AutoGluon 2022 new features",
            "subtitle": "Or how to get the best open source python code without overfitting ?",
            "lang": "en",
            "wordCount": 843,
            "readingTime": 4.731132075471698,
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        },
        {
            "id": "81ffb30c36b2",
            "title": "How to Speed Up Training for Large Language Models",
            "subtitle": "Explore the concept of sequence parallelism and selective activation re-computation",
            "lang": "en",
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        },
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            "id": "274c6965e2d",
            "title": "Named Entity Recognition with Deep Learning (BERT) — The Essential Guide",
            "subtitle": "From data preparation to model training — and how to tag your own sentences!",
            "lang": "en",
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        {
            "id": "e2f4c9dd4a7b",
            "title": "Don’t use R in production",
            "subtitle": "But if you do, here is how!",
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            "title": "Make Your R Code 10x Faster: Vectorization Explained in 3 Minutes",
            "subtitle": "Say goodbye to slow, messy loops",
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            "title": "Saga of the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis",
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            "title": "Metrics for uncertainty evaluation in regression problems",
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}

Publication with parameters

api/posts/towards-data-science?post_num=1&trend_num=2

{
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    ],
    "twitterUsername": "TDataScience",
    "facebookPageName": "towardsdatascience",
    "instagramName": "towardsdatascience",
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            "id": "1046b4d045ae",
            "title": "How does science work? It’s all about clones!",
            "subtitle": "Every good scientific experiment that seeks to establish how something works — and not just that it does work — is about making clones.",
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            "title": "Poisson Distribution Intuition (and derivation)",
            "subtitle": "When to use a Poisson Distribution?",
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    "writers": [
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}

User

/api/user/:user

Response

/api/user/jeff_hilles
{
    "name": "JEFF HILLES",
    "id": "User:d907eed0145d",
    "bio": "Biblical Christian Worldview challenging a deteriorating culture. Follower of Jesus Christ. More at BCWorldview.org. I respond to every comment on my posts.",
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            "id": "Post:5c505b9d3f99",
            "title": "Calling all Born-Again, Evangelical, Traditional Christians",
            "subtite": "This brief post is intended to FIND the remnant of those who still hold traditional Christian values and viewpoints to support each other.",
            "firstPublishedAt": 1644866408348,
            "latestPublishedAt": 1655132546756,
            "uniqueSlug": "calling-all-born-again-evangelical-traditional-christians-5c505b9d3f99",
            "voterCount": 68,
            "clapCount": 1250
        },
        {
            "id": "Post:6dbcf94433bb",
            "title": "The Death of my Parents",
            "subtite": "The second most impactful event in my spiritual walk.",
            "firstPublishedAt": 1642533642000,
            "latestPublishedAt": 1646932787858,
            "uniqueSlug": "the-death-of-my-parents-6dbcf94433bb",
            "voterCount": 22,
            "clapCount": 342
        },
        {
            "id": "Post:2cc23cf0424",
            "title": "God has no grandchildren. We each need to accept Him personally.",
            "subtite": "Quick Quote — Source — Unknown",
            "firstPublishedAt": 1660283582672,
            "latestPublishedAt": 1660283582672,
            "uniqueSlug": "god-has-no-grandchildren-we-each-need-to-accept-him-personally-2cc23cf0424",
            "voterCount": 2,
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        },
        {
            "id": "Post:caea75ab58be",
            "title": "Christianity vs. christianity — Who’s who in Eternity",
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            "firstPublishedAt": 1660256495540,
            "latestPublishedAt": 1660332881021,
            "uniqueSlug": "christianity-vs-christianity-whos-who-in-eternity-caea75ab58be",
            "voterCount": 6,
            "clapCount": 104
        },
        {
            "id": "Post:7e10f3c9e9c8",
            "title": "Evangelism — a focus on the joy of Heaven rather than the fear of Hell.",
            "subtite": "Quick Quote — Source — Jeff Hilles",
            "firstPublishedAt": 1660110799712,
            "latestPublishedAt": 1660110799712,
            "uniqueSlug": "evangelism-a-focus-on-the-joy-of-heaven-rather-than-the-fear-of-hell-7e10f3c9e9c8",
            "voterCount": 1,
            "clapCount": 50
        },
        {
            "id": "Post:373fe52aae22",
            "title": "One cannot truly understand the concept of “Faith”, unless they already have it.",
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            "uniqueSlug": "one-cannot-truly-understand-the-concept-of-faith-unless-they-already-have-it-373fe52aae22",
            "voterCount": 1,
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        },
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        },
        {
            "id": "Post:911c7156f6fd",
            "title": "Should Christians Trust the Holy Spirit",
            "subtite": "On the surface the obvious answer to this question should be, “yes”. The Holy Spirit is just as much a part of the Trinity as the Father…",
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        },
        {
            "id": "Post:feedd2d1cd2d",
            "title": "Jesus Christ as “Lord & Savior” ?",
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            "uniqueSlug": "jesus-christ-as-lord-savior-feedd2d1cd2d",
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}

With parameter

/api/user/jeff_hilles?post_num=2
{
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    "id": "User:d907eed0145d",
    "bio": "Biblical Christian Worldview challenging a deteriorating culture. Follower of Jesus Christ. More at BCWorldview.org. I respond to every comment on my posts.",
    "followerCount": 609,
    "followingCount": 656,
    "posts": [
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            "id": "Post:5c505b9d3f99",
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            "firstPublishedAt": 1644866408348,
            "latestPublishedAt": 1655132546756,
            "uniqueSlug": "calling-all-born-again-evangelical-traditional-christians-5c505b9d3f99",
            "voterCount": 68,
            "clapCount": 1250
        },
        {
            "id": "Post:6dbcf94433bb",
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    ]
}

Tags

/api/trend/:tag_name

Response

/api/trend/programming
{
    "writerCount": 87828,
    "postCountLatest": 497,
    "topWriter": [
        {
            "name": "javinpaul",
            "bio": "I am Java programmer, blogger, working on Java, J2EE, UNIX, FIX Protocol. I share Java tips on http://javarevisited.blogspot.com and http://java67.com",
            "customDomain": "javinpaul.medium.com"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bhargav Bachina",
            "bio": "Entrepreneur | 500+ Tech Articles | Subscribe to upcoming Videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWLSuUulkLIQvbMHRUfKM-g | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bachina",
            "customDomain": ""
        },
        {
            "name": "Frank Andrade",
            "bio": "4M+ Views on Medium || Code Less, Earn More: Make money using your Data Science and Programming skills (FREE ebook) 👉 https://frankandrade.ck.page/3b520320ac",
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        },
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            "name": "Giorgos Myrianthous",
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            "customDomain": "gmyrianthous.medium.com"
        },
        {
            "name": "John Au-Yeung",
            "bio": "Web developer. Subscribe to my email list now at https://thewebdev.info/subscribe/. Email me at hohanga@gmail.com",
            "customDomain": "hohanga.medium.com"
        },
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            "name": "Soner Yıldırım",
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        }
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                    "__ref": "Tag:snaketronics"
                },
                {
                    "__ref": "Tag:tutorial"
                }
            ]
        },
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            "title": "11 Python Tricks To Show Off Your Advanced Skills",
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            "voterCount": 2,
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                }
            ]
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                }
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            "title": "So the journey begins",
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}