medium-api-docs VS blog-crossposting-automation

For more Reference you can check this API documentation of Medium Here.

Figure out why the Medium API is not working!! According to their site their API has been deprecated so even after reviewing with Allen the whole code, I keep getting an error that my AuthorId is wrong. We believe it's a problem on their side but I still want it to work.

More Information regarding the medium.com api: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs

We will be using Medium's REST API for this part. You can find the documentation here.

Medium's API does not support such a use case so you'll have to hire someone on Fiverr to write a custom script to do that

Like Dev.to, Medium also has REST API to create posts. In this tutorial, we are going to work with /posts endpoint to create a new blog post.

There is some documentation on Medium API, we can even post to a Publication, that shall be created in future. Also the cover images can be posted on medium, it is not currently done but that can again be a #TODO. The tags are not rendered on Medium yet with the script. The way we can parse strings is limited in BASH, so this might still be a doable thing later. Most of the checkboxes are ticked like title, subtitle, cover-image, canonical url, and importantly the content.

Okay so today's post is actually kind of fun. As you probably don't know, Medium doesn't have a proper fetch API. They only have a publishing API which makes sense as they want to be own the reading experience, not just the publishing. So, if you want to show your Medium posts on your site, you'll need to do a bit of work.

Documentation - https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs

In essence, his solution works like an automated assembly line for your blog posts. Once you write a post and commit it to your main branch on GitHub, AWS Amplify verifies the content and if everything checks out, a Lambda function retrieves your post and sets a workflow in motion. This workflow simultaneously transforms and publishes your post across Medium, Hashnode, and Dev.to.

This Lambda function is implemented in my blog crossposting app. It is called from a state machine to post articles to various publications. In this project, I created a Lambda function to generate payloads specifically for this function to use as simply as possible.

The code above shows how I use GitHub's SDK, octokit, to list commits in my repository in the past few minutes. Full source code here.