How to Scrape Trending Medium Articles with Python

I used the Selenium library in Python to scrape trending articles listed under the most popular Medium tags.

Rishabh Sharma
5 min readJul 3, 2023
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Scraping trending article titles from Medium has proven to be incredibly beneficial for me as a content creator. It saves me time and effort by providing a vast collection of captivating and well-crafted titles that have already proven their effectiveness in attracting readers. Not only does it help me generate ideas, but it also allows me to identify popular keywords and trending topics that can enhance the search engine visibility of my own content. Moreover, analyzing scraped titles from Medium has helped me understand new styles of framing content, enhance content creation, and drive increased traffic to my posts.

I found that web scraping using Python is an effective technique to extract data from websites such as Medium. In this post, I automated the process of gathering titles from multiple web pages on Medium using Selenium.

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Rishabh Sharma

Passionate wordsmith with a penchant to explore the depths of creativity.