SmallMedium

Disclaimer

• This app does not promote piracy or abusing the free limit for starred articles. Do consider buying the Membership if you read a lot.
• All the Medium articles fetched by this app are owned by Medium Inc.

Motivation

For all the avid Medium readers out there like me, who reads starred Medium articles in Incognito mode.

But copy pasting the URL and viewing it in Incognito mode becomes tedious, so decided to automate it.

Also wanted to learn Scrapy and Share Target API for PWAs.

Demo

Desktop view

Future Add-Ons

• Dark mode
• Show all viewed articles
• Recommend articles based on viewed articles

Note

• The scraper is hosted on AWS.
• To run the scraper, follow the steps below

pip install -r requirements.txt
cd scraper
scrapyrt -p <port-number>