Medium Following Scraper 👥

🤖 What does Medium Following Scraper do?

This actor allows you to scrape following lists from Medium users. For any given Medium username, it extracts detailed information about the people they follow, including names, bios, profile URLs, and membership status.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Scrape following lists from any public Medium profile
• 👤 Get detailed user information including:
  • User ID
  • Name
  • Username
  • Bio
  • Profile URL
  • Profile Image
  • Membership Tier
  • Book Author Status
• ⚡ High-performance scraping with built-in request management
• ⚙️ Configurable maximum items limit

🔧 Input Configuration

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• usernames (Array): List of Medium usernames to scrape following lists
• maxItems (Number): Maximum number of articles to scrape

📝 Use Cases

• 🎯 Influencer research and analysis
• 📊 Content creator network mapping
• 🔍 Audience analysis
• 💡 Finding potential collaborators
• 📈 Community growth analysis

💡 Tips

• Start with a small maxItems value for testing
• Use multiple usernames to batch process multiple profiles

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2	"usernames": [
3        "mariaspantidi"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 30
6}

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.

1[
2	{
3		"id": "6356e70393da",
4		"name": "CarolF",
5		"username": "carol.finch1",
6		"bio": "I write diverse stuff in British English. I use the S over the Z and keep the Oxford comma for special occasions. Editor of The Parenting Portal.",
7		"profileUrl": "https://medium.com/@carol.finch1",
8		"imageUrl": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1*Ffq1D1HG8aa3MDQB6JhjnQ.jpeg",
9		"membershipTier": "FRIEND",
10		"isBookAuthor": false
11	},
12	{
13		"id": "cc2192bf0518",
14		"name": "Emily J. Smith",
15		"username": "emjsmith",
16		"bio": "Writer and tech professional. My debut novel, NOTHING SERIOUS, is out Feb '25 from William Morrow / HarperCollins (more at emjsmith.com).",
17		"profileUrl": "https://medium.com/@emjsmith",
18		"imageUrl": "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1*N-9MfC5BB-lPPU197Yye8g.jpeg",
19		"membershipTier": "MEMBER",
20		"isBookAuthor": false
21	},
22    ...
23]