Archiving Medium

Overview

Medium is an online publishing platform. This guide provides an overview of how to properly format, scope, and crawl Medium seeds. 

Known issues

There are no known issues with collecting Medium seeds; however, some Medium seeds have replay issues in Wayback. 

You can find a full list of known issues for archiving various platforms on our Status of monitored platforms page. 

On this page

• How to scope Medium Seeds
• What to expect from archived Medium seeds:

How to scope Medium seeds

No specific scoping rules are necessary to capture medium.com seeds. However, medium seeds can be data-heavy, so we recommend a test crawl to start. This will help to identify areas to limit data by using seed-level exclude rules.  

What to expect from archived Medium seeds

Some Medium seeds have playback issues in Wayback, where the content was collected but is not able to fully replay. 

We recommend that you review the results of your Medium crawls for completeness and accuracy.