# Medium/medium-api-docs

Documentation for Medium's OAuth2 API

Repository: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/medium-api-docs
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-03-02T22:00:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3991, "days_push": 1280, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2332, forks 217 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.859443+00:00)

## What it is
Official documentation for Medium's JSON-based OAuth2 REST API, covering authentication, users, publications, posts, and images endpoints. The repository explicitly warns that the Medium API is no longer supported and should not be used.

## Use cases
- publish articles to Medium programmatically
- authenticate with Medium via OAuth2
- fetch a Medium user's profile via API
- upload images to Medium
- list a user's Medium publications
- create posts on behalf of a Medium account

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy integration that already uses the Medium API
- you need reference material for the historical Medium OAuth2 endpoints

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new integration - Medium no longer supports the API and disallows new integrations
- you need a reliable, actively maintained publishing API
- you need browser-based OAuth for new clients - it is restricted to existing integrations only

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: auth, api-framework, documentation
- domain: apis, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: medium-api, oauth2, api-documentation, deprecated, publishing-api, publishing, web-server

## Member repositories
- Medium/medium-api-docs (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.859443+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:37:56.175189+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.859443+00:00, sha aa308170f91c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.