Archiving Medium

Overview

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

Known Issues

There are no known issues with capturing Medium seeds. However, some Medium seeds have replay issues. This is something we are working on as a long-term development fix.

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 places to limit data by using seed-level block rules.  

What to expect from archived Medium seeds:

Some medium seeds have playback issues, where the content was captured but is not able to fully replay. This is something we are working on as a long-term development fix.

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