This is a fork of dtesler/medium-to-markdown that describes a workflow to convert any Medium article (even those hidden behind a paywall) to Markdown. There's potentially a better, fully autmated way to get this done, but this is the best I could come up with without wasting loads of times on this.
If you only need this part of the functionality, you could just as well use the original repo. The following steps are identical to the original repo:
- Install npm if not already installed
- Clone the repo
- run
npm installinside the repo
At this point, you can run the 'raw converter script' like described in the original repo. E.g. to convert a Medium article that is NOT hidden behind a paywall (in this example https://medium.com/@almenon214/keeping-yourself-motivated-as-a-coder-a16a6fcf49c7) to a file (in this case exampleOutput.md), you could just run
npm run convert https://medium.com/@almenon214/keeping-yourself-motivated-as-a-coder-a16a6fcf49c7 > exampleOutput.md`You can also check out the README of the original repo for details.
You will need some way to get the raw HTML page of the full article. There's probably multiple ways to do this, but I managed to get things working with this specific approach.
For this, you will need some way to access the raw HTML of full articles. The easiest solution I could find is to use the Bypass Paywalls Clean Chrome extension. (It should be free of malware, but use it at your own risk - for alternatives see also this Reddit thread)
Once installed, it should show you a link to a cached version of the full Medium article whenever you visit a paywalled article. You can then use the following workflow to convert the article to Markdown.
TODO describe what to do afterwards