medium_article_scraper

mediumScreaper

A screaper for Medium.com -posts

This script searches on Medium.com for a supplied Topic and returns the results as Json.

Recommendet Python-Version

The only external dependancy is

Install the required external dependancies with

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Also, a chmod +x mediumScraper.py can be needed to make the script executable, otherwise You have to call it with python3 (see Usage Examples)

Getting help:

$ (python3) mediumScraper.py -h

Get posts for python:

$ (python3) mediumScraper.py python

Get maximum 100 posts for software development:

$ (python3) mediumScraper.py "software development" -c 100

Pretty-Print the json output:

$ (python3) mediumScraper.py python -b