# manojVivek/medium-unlimited

A browser extension to read medium.com articles for free without membership.

Repository: https://github.com/manojVivek/medium-unlimited
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/medium-unlimited
Homepage: https://manojvivek.github.io/medium-unlimited/
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: chrome-extension, javascript, medium, firefox-addon
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-11-09T00:34:55+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": 2938, "days_push": 1394, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5467, forks 445 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:19.577914+00:00)

## What it is
A browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that unlocks Medium.com membership-only articles by bypassing the paywall. It supports medium.com and many custom-domain publications like Towards Data Science and HackerNoon.

## Use cases
- read medium articles without subscription
- bypass medium paywall
- read more than 3 free medium articles per month
- access towardsdatascience articles for free
- read paywalled blog posts on medium publications

## When to choose
- you read Medium frequently and hit the monthly free-article limit
- you want a zero-config browser extension that works automatically on Medium and custom-domain publications

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool - the last release was in 2022 and Medium may have changed its paywall since
- you want a legally sanctioned way to access paid content - this circumvents publisher paywalls

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: browser-extension, web-scraping, privacy
- domain: browser-extensions, web-development, privacy
- platform: browser, browser-extension
- tags: medium, paywall-bypass, chrome-extension, firefox-addon, javascript

## Member repositories
- manojVivek/medium-unlimited (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:19.577914+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 2026-08-29T17:56:45.247107+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/manojVivek/medium-unlimited (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:19.577914+00:00, sha d94dd147c523)
  - homepage: https://manojvivek.github.io/medium-unlimited/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:51:59.408041+00:00, sha 2af9840888ab)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.