Understand Medium's publishing API status before attempting an integration
domain: medium.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Note that Medium's official publishing API (OAuth2, described in the Medium/medium-api-docs GitHub repo) has been deprecated since 2023; that repo was archived in March 2023.
Do not apply for new API integration tokens -- Medium is not approving new API integrations as of 2026.
If you already hold a legacy, previously issued token, treat it as unsupported best-effort -- Medium gives no guarantee or timeline for continued function.
For distributing content to Medium today, plan on manual publishing through the Medium editor, or Medium's 'Import a story' feature to republish from another canonical URL.
Re-check status.medium.com and the archived medium-api-docs repo periodically in case Medium reopens API access.
Known gotchas
Do not promise programmatic auto-publishing to Medium as a reliable feature -- it is not currently obtainable for new integrations.
Third-party 'Medium API' wrappers/tokens circulating online are built on the deprecated surface and are not officially supported.
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