How I Scrape and Search My Medium Articles by Keyword

Author(s): Ganesh Bajaj

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As a writer on Medium, you may have experienced the frustration of not being able to search your own Medium articles for specific keywords. I am new to Medium and having published a number of articles, I found it difficult to search my own library.

Unlike other blogging platforms like Blogger, I dont see any built-in search feature for this. If you’ve published many articles then finding that one piece you’re looking for feels like a needle in a haystack.

So I developed a simple python script to scrape the website and search it myself :). In this article, I will walk you through on how to use Python, Selenium, and BeautifulSoup to scrape your Medium profile and search for articles containing specific keywords. This solution is practical, relatively simple, and will save you a lot of time.

We will make use of the following Python libraries:

Selenium: To browse and scrape the HTML content from our Medium Profile.BeautifulSoup: To… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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