charlesstover/medium-stats-api repository overview

⁠Medium Stats API

An API endpoint for fetching Medium article stats.

⁠Use

To use this application, run the following Docker command, replacing <<YOUR SID HERE>> with the contents of your sid cookie, <<YOUR UID HERE>> with the contents of your uid cookie, and <<YOUR USERNAME HERE>> with your Medium username (not including the @).

docker run \
  --detach \
  --env SID=<<YOUR SID HERE>> \
  --env UID=<<YOUR UID HERE>> \
  --env USERNAME=<<YOUR USERNAME HERE>> \
  --name medium-stats-api \
  --network reverse-proxy \
  --restart always \
  charlesstover/medium-stats-api

⁠Tech Stack

• Docker - containerize the API
• JavaScript - Promises for fetching and parsing data
• Node - server and file system