Build a Trending Content Feed with the Medium Trending Articles API

Ever wanted to surface the hottest articles on Medium without scraping the site? The Medium Trending Articles API gives you a clean, structured endpoint to fetch trending posts by topic — perfect for building content dashboards, newsletter curators, or research tools. What It Does The API returns trending Medium articles filtered by topic. Pass a topic tag like javascript , ai , or startup and get back a list of articles that are currently gaining traction on the platform. Each result includes the title, author, URL, clap count, and other metadata you need to build real features on top of. No authentication with Medium required. No browser automation. Just a single GET request. Quick Start Here's how to fetch trending articles about JavaScript: const response = await fetch ( ' https://news-apis-consolidated-production.up.railway.app/api/medium-trending-articles/trending?topic=javascript ' ); const data = await response . json (); data . articles . forEach ( article => { console . log (