# x402 Social Intel – Medium Article Scraper

> x402 Social Intel – Medium Article Scraper is a paid API for AI agents from social-hub-v5.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Scrapes and extracts content and metadata from a Medium article given its URL, returning structured article intelligence.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://social-hub-v5.vercel.app/api/medium/article
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-medium-article-scraper-768793fc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_W5zAuLjASPMvA1rVL1Hqj

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability x402-social-intel-medium-article-scraper-768793fc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you scrape this Medium article for me and pull out the full text, author, publish date, and tags? Here's the URL: https://medium.com/@someauthor/how-i-built-my-startup-in-60-days-abc123

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract structured content from a specific Medium article URL — especially useful for research pipelines, content aggregation, competitive intelligence, or newsletter automation. Prefer this over generic web scrapers if you specifically need Medium-structured fields like claps, read time, and tags parsed reliably.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed Medium URL returns an error
- Paywalled or member-only articles may return partial content or fail
- Article has been deleted or unpublished — returns 404-style error
- Rate limiting or anti-scraping measures from Medium may cause failures
- Network timeout if Medium is slow to respond

## How this service works

Paid social media intelligence API — TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Website scraper. All endpoints EVM-only on Base mainnet.

## Output

Returns structured data extracted from the Medium article including the full article body text, title, author name, publication date, estimated read time, clap count, tags/topics, and other available metadata fields scraped from the page.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-social-intel-medium-article-scraper-768793fc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from social-hub-v5.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/social-hub-v5.vercel.app/llms.txt)