MCP server for Medium API — publish posts, manage publications, upload images
MCP server for Medium API — publish posts, manage publications, upload images. Exposed over MCP by the medium mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for interacting with the Medium API. Allows AI agents to publish posts, manage publications, upload images, and parse RSS feeds to JSON.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
get_profile — Get the authenticated user's Medium profilelist_publications — List all publications the user is related tolist_contributors — List contributors for a publicationcreate_post — Create a post on the user's Medium profilecreate_publication_post — Create a post under a specific publicationupload_image — Upload an image to Medium from a URLget_rss_feed — Fetch and parse Medium RSS feeds into JSONYou will need one environment variable: MEDIUM_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @modelcontextprotocol/inspector on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Medium's toolset — get_profile, list_publications, list_contributors and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by afikrim; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Medium's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_profile | Get the authenticated user's Medium profile |
| list_publications | List all publications the user is related to |
| list_contributors | List contributors for a publication |
| create_post | Create a post on the user's Medium profile |
| create_publication_post | Create a post under a specific publication |
| upload_image | Upload an image to Medium from a URL |
| get_rss_feed | Fetch and parse Medium RSS feeds into JSON |
{
"mcpServers": {
"medium": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/inspector"],
"env": {
"MEDIUM_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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