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Get a Medium profile

Retrieve a public Medium writer profile with biography, images, follower and following counts, story count and published social handles.

GET/v1/medium/profilex-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

handlestringrequiredquery

Medium handle without the leading @.

Exampleexample-writer

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Source request attempts, decoded bytes and duration.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Number of upstream HTTP request attempts.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source response bytes.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed request time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data; failed or challenged for failure responses.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public Medium URL for the request.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Coverage of the returned source records.

coverage.sourcestring

Public Medium web data.

coverage.completeboolean

Whether the result has no reported omissions.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Warnings that explain partial results.

coverage.orderenumoptional

Returned source order: source_order or ranked.

one of: source_order, ranked

Public writer profile.

profile.idstring

Medium user ID as a source string.

profile.usernamestring

Public Medium handle.

profile.namestringnullable

Display name, or null.

profile.biostringnullable

Profile biography, or null.

profile.urlstringnullable

Public profile URL, or null.

profile.imageIdstringnullable

Source avatar image identifier, or null.

profile.imageUrlstringnullable

Public avatar image URL, or null.

profile.backgroundImageIdstringnullable

Source background image identifier, or null.

profile.createdAtintegernullable

Profile creation time as Unix milliseconds, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

profile.mediumMemberAtintegernullable

Medium membership start as Unix milliseconds, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

profile.languageCodestringnullable

Source language code, or null.

profile.twitterScreenNamestringnullable

Public X handle, or null.

profile.facebookDisplayNamestringnullable

Public Facebook display name, or null.

profile.followerCountintegernullable

Published follower count, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

profile.followingCountintegernullable

Published following count, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

profile.postCountintegernullable

Published story count, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

profile.isSuspendedbooleannullable

Source suspension flag, or null.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicated, invalid or unsupported request parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested writer, publication or story was not found.
422	`restricted_page`	The source requires additional access.
422	`unsupported_page`	The source did not provide the expected record.
502	`upstream_challenged`	The source challenged the request.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	The source rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_error`	A source request failed.
502	`response_too_large`	Source data exceeded the response byte limit.
502	`payload_too_complex`	Source data exceeded the traversal depth or node limit.
502	`unsafe_redirect`	The source returned an unexpected redirect.
502	`request_limit`	The request exhausted its source-attempt budget.
503	`busy`	All worker request slots are in use.
504	`timeout`	The request exceeded its deadline.
200	`partial`	Usable data was returned with coverage warnings.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/medium/profile?handle=example-writer" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/medium/profile?handle=example-writer",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/medium/profile?handle=example-writer",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Medium request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/medium/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "example-writer"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/medium/profile?handle=example-writer", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/medium/profile?handle=example-writer"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://medium.com/@example-writer",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [],
    "order": "source_order"
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 12000,
    "durationMs": 500
  },
  "profile": {
    "id": "aaaaaaaaaaaa",
    "username": "example-writer",
    "name": "Example Writer",
    "bio": "Writes about technology.",
    "url": "https://medium.com/@example-writer",
    "imageId": null,
    "imageUrl": null,
    "backgroundImageId": null,
    "createdAt": 1756684800000,
    "mediumMemberAt": null,
    "languageCode": "en",
    "twitterScreenName": null,
    "facebookDisplayName": null,
    "followerCount": 12,
    "followingCount": 3,
    "postCount": 5,
    "isSuspended": false
  }
}

Missing, duplicated, invalid or unsupported request parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}