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- # Medium — Article Body via DOM
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- - `wait_for_load()` is necessary but not sufficient — Medium continues to hydrate author-card and clap widgets after `readyState=complete`. An additional `wait(2.0)` avoids cases where the article outer frame exists but the first few paragraphs are still skeleton `<div>`s.
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- - For member-only articles, if `<article>` renders but text length is suspiciously short (<500 chars), the paywall modal intercepted. Confirm the tab is on your logged-in profile and retry.
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-
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- ## Paywall / login detection
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- ```python
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- state = js("""
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- (()=>{
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- const art = document.querySelector('article');
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- const len = art ? art.innerText.length : 0;
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- const hasPaywall = !!document.querySelector('[data-testid*="paywall"], [aria-label*="Sign in" i]');
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- return {len, hasPaywall};
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- })()
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- """)
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- ```
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-
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- If `hasPaywall` is true or `len < 500`, fall back to `scraping.md` API paths (the article may simply be locked for this account).
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- ## Traps
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- - **Don't use `article.innerText` alone.** It drops structure — code blocks lose their fences, lists lose their markers, figures disappear. The block walker above preserves each element kind.
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- - **Don't rely on CSS class names.** Medium's class names are hashed (`pw-post-body-paragraph`, etc.) and rotate; select by tag instead.
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- - **`<figure>` caption text is often also repeated as `<img alt>`.** Prefer `alt`, fall back to `figcaption`, so you don't emit both.
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- - **The article ends before the "About the Author" card sometimes, sometimes not.** The walker captures both, which is fine for archival. If you need body-only, cut at the last `h2`/`h3` before a `<hr>`-equivalent divider, or trim by known footer strings (`Follow`, `More from`, `Written by`).
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- - **Tab marker.** `new_tab()` prepends 🟢 to the title. Don't include `document.title` in the emitted markdown — use the article's `<h1>` instead.
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+ # Medium — Article Body via DOM
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+
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+ Extract a Medium article's body as clean markdown using the logged-in browser. Use this when API paths in `scraping.md` are blocked or truncated:
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+
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+ - Cloudflare challenge on the `?format=json` endpoint ("Performing security verification")
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+ - Member-only post that the API returns locked (`isSubscriptionLocked=True`) but the logged-in browser can render in full
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+ - JS-only variant where the article is gated behind a client-side paywall modal
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+
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+ If the article is free and the API works, prefer `scraping.md` — it's faster and doesn't need a visible tab.
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+
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+ ## URL patterns
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+
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+ - Canonical: `https://medium.com/@<author>/<slug>-<id>`
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+ - Publication: `https://<pub>.medium.com/<slug>-<id>` or `https://medium.com/<pub>/<slug>-<id>`
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+ - Custom domain: some publications (e.g. `towardsdatascience.com`) proxy Medium; the same DOM extractor works there.
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+
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+ All variants render the article body inside a single `<article>` element.
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+
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+ ## Site structure
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+
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+ - The article body lives under the page's single `<article>` element.
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+ - Block-level content: `h1`–`h4`, `p`, `pre`, `blockquote`, `ul`, `ol`, `figure`.
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+ - Images are always wrapped in `<figure>` with a `<figcaption>` sibling; the real resolution lives on `miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:<N>/...`.
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+ - Code blocks are `<pre>` — no language class is exposed in the DOM, so emit plain fenced blocks.
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+ - Pull quotes render as `<blockquote>` with nested `<p>`.
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+
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+ ## Cruft to strip
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+
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+ Medium injects engagement UI **inside** `<article>`. The text "6 2 Listen Share More" at the top is the clap/comment/listen/share button row, not content. Also expect a follow button near the author's name and sometimes a "Help" / "Status" footer.
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+
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+ Safe pattern: take the extracted markdown, then drop leading paragraphs that are shorter than ~12 characters until you hit the first real block (the "Last updated" line, the H1, or the first long paragraph).
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+
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+ ## Extractor
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+
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+ ````bash
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+ browser-harness <<'PY'
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+ new_tab("https://medium.com/@user/slug-abc123")
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+ wait_for_load()
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+ wait(2.0) # Medium hydrates more UI after readyState=complete
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+
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+ md = js(r"""
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+ (()=>{
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+ const article = document.querySelector('article');
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+ if(!article) return null;
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+ const blocks = article.querySelectorAll('h1, h2, h3, h4, p, pre, blockquote, ul, ol, figure');
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+ const out = [];
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+ const seen = new Set();
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+ for(const el of blocks){
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+ let skip = false;
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+ for(const s of seen){ if(s.contains(el) && s !== el){ skip=true; break; } }
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+ if(skip) continue;
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+ seen.add(el);
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+ const tag = el.tagName;
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+ const txt = (el.innerText || '').trim();
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+ if(!txt && tag !== 'FIGURE') continue;
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+ if(tag === 'H1') out.push('# ' + txt);
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+ else if(tag === 'H2') out.push('## ' + txt);
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+ else if(tag === 'H3') out.push('### ' + txt);
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+ else if(tag === 'H4') out.push('#### ' + txt);
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+ else if(tag === 'PRE') out.push('```\n' + txt + '\n```');
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+ else if(tag === 'BLOCKQUOTE') out.push(txt.split('\n').map(l=>'> '+l).join('\n'));
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+ else if(tag === 'UL' || tag === 'OL'){
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+ const items = [...el.querySelectorAll(':scope > li')].map((li,i)=>{
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+ const t = li.innerText.trim();
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+ return (tag==='OL' ? (i+1)+'. ' : '- ') + t;
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+ });
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+ out.push(items.join('\n'));
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+ }
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+ else if(tag === 'FIGURE'){
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+ const img = el.querySelector('img');
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+ const cap = el.querySelector('figcaption');
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+ if(img && img.src){
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+ const alt = img.alt || (cap ? cap.innerText.trim() : '');
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+ out.push('![' + alt + '](' + img.src + ')');
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+ }
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+ }
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+ else if(tag === 'P') out.push(txt);
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+ }
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+ return out.join('\n\n');
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+ })()
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+ """)
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+
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+ # Strip engagement-button cruft from the top
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+ paras = md.split('\n\n')
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+ while paras and len(paras[0]) < 12:
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+ paras.pop(0)
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+ md = '\n\n'.join(paras)
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+ print(md)
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+ PY
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+ ````
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+
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+ The `seen` set avoids double-emitting when an `<li>` matches the block query inside its `<ul>`.
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+
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+ ## Waits
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+
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+ - `wait_for_load()` is necessary but not sufficient — Medium continues to hydrate author-card and clap widgets after `readyState=complete`. An additional `wait(2.0)` avoids cases where the article outer frame exists but the first few paragraphs are still skeleton `<div>`s.
97
+ - For member-only articles, if `<article>` renders but text length is suspiciously short (<500 chars), the paywall modal intercepted. Confirm the tab is on your logged-in profile and retry.
98
+
99
+ ## Paywall / login detection
100
+
101
+ ```python
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+ state = js("""
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+ (()=>{
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+ const art = document.querySelector('article');
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+ const len = art ? art.innerText.length : 0;
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+ const hasPaywall = !!document.querySelector('[data-testid*="paywall"], [aria-label*="Sign in" i]');
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+ return {len, hasPaywall};
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+ })()
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+ """)
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+ ```
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+
112
+ If `hasPaywall` is true or `len < 500`, fall back to `scraping.md` API paths (the article may simply be locked for this account).
113
+
114
+ ## Traps
115
+
116
+ - **Don't use `article.innerText` alone.** It drops structure — code blocks lose their fences, lists lose their markers, figures disappear. The block walker above preserves each element kind.
117
+ - **Don't rely on CSS class names.** Medium's class names are hashed (`pw-post-body-paragraph`, etc.) and rotate; select by tag instead.
118
+ - **`<figure>` caption text is often also repeated as `<img alt>`.** Prefer `alt`, fall back to `figcaption`, so you don't emit both.
119
+ - **The article ends before the "About the Author" card sometimes, sometimes not.** The walker captures both, which is fine for archival. If you need body-only, cut at the last `h2`/`h3` before a `<hr>`-equivalent divider, or trim by known footer strings (`Follow`, `More from`, `Written by`).
120
+ - **Tab marker.** `new_tab()` prepends 🟢 to the title. Don't include `document.title` in the emitted markdown — use the article's `<h1>` instead.