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Build a Trending Content Feed with the Medium Trending Articles API

#javascript #webdev #api #tutorial

Ever wanted to surface the hottest articles on Medium without scraping the site? The Medium Trending Articles API gives you a clean, structured endpoint to fetch trending posts by topic — perfect for building content dashboards, newsletter curators, or research tools.

What It Does

The API returns trending Medium articles filtered by topic. Pass a topic tag like javascript, ai, or startup and get back a list of articles that are currently gaining traction on the platform. Each result includes the title, author, URL, clap count, and other metadata you need to build real features on top of.

No authentication with Medium required. No browser automation. Just a single GET request.

Quick Start

Here's how to fetch trending articles about JavaScript:

const response = await fetch(
  'https://news-apis-consolidated-production.up.railway.app/api/medium-trending-articles/trending?topic=javascript'
);

const data = await response.json();

data.articles.forEach(article => {
  console.log(`${article.title} by ${article.author}`);
  console.log(`  Claps: ${article.claps} | ${article.url}`);
});
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That's it. One request, structured JSON back.

What You Can Build

  • Content Discovery Feeds — Show your users what's trending in their areas of interest. Filter by topic and display fresh, high-engagement articles.
  • Newsletter Automation — Pull the top articles each week for a given topic and pipe them into your email workflow.
  • Competitive Research — Track which topics and authors are gaining momentum. Useful for content strategists and developer advocates.
  • Reading List Apps — Let users pick topics and automatically populate a curated reading list from Medium's trending content.

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Description
topic string No Topic tag to filter by (e.g., ai, python, design)

When no topic is provided, the API returns the overall trending articles across Medium.

Try It Now

The API is live on RapidAPI with a free tier so you can test it immediately. Head over to the Medium Trending Articles API on RapidAPI, subscribe to the free plan, and start making requests from the interactive playground.

Whether you're building a side project or adding a content layer to a production app, this API saves you from the headache of scraping and gives you reliable, structured data to work with.

Give it a try and let me know what you build with it.

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