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Medium Make integrationAutomate Medium with Make.

Can Make still post to Medium for you? The Medium Make integration gives you 5 modules: 3 actions and 2 searches. This page shows what each one does, how to plug in an existing connection, and why the app's deprecation changes your plans.

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What you can automate

What can the Medium Make integration do for you?

The Medium Make integration lets a Make scenario (the automation you build, a chain of bricks called modules) write to your Medium account. It creates posts on your profile or inside a publication, uploads images, and lists the publications and contributors you work with. No code, only modules you drop into the editor.

Ship drafts from the tool where you write. A developer advocate finishes an article in a doc or a database, another app's module picks it up, and Create a Post turns it into a Medium post on your profile. Nothing to copy and paste.

Feed a team publication. If you run a company publication, List Publications finds it and Create a Post for Publication files the article there. List Contributors tells you who can write in it before you assign anything.

Keep your cover image attached. Upload an Image sends a picture to Medium first, so the post you create next can point to it.

Now the honest part. The Medium app in Make is deprecated: connections you already have keep working, but you can't create a new one, and Medium no longer hands out new integration tokens. If you never connected Medium before, this page is mostly a map of what you missed. Before you commit, check the Medium n8n integration and read n8n vs Make. If an old connection starts failing, Make troubleshooting is the place to start.

Connect

How do you connect Medium to Make?

  1. 01

    Add a Medium module

    Open your scenario, click the +, search for Medium and pick any module. Make asks for a connection, meaning your Medium account linked once and reused by every Medium module. If you already have one, select it in the list.

  2. 02

    Name the connection

    When you click Create a connection, Make lets you give it a name. It's optional, but a label like the account's owner saves you from guessing later, especially if a teammate built the original link.

  3. 03

    Authorize and save

    Make then asks you to authorize it on Medium's side or to paste the token Medium gave you. Click Save and the module can list what it reads. Heads up: this step is exactly where the deprecation blocks new accounts.

First scenario

Your first scenario with Medium and Make

GoalWhen the scenario runs on its schedule, Make uploads an image to Medium and then creates a post that uses it.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    Go to the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the big +. Medium has no trigger, so this first module is an action that Make runs on the scenario's clock.

  2. 02

    Add Upload an Image

    Search for Medium, choose Upload an Image and select your existing connection. Fill the fields; once the connection works, Make shows what it can read from your account.

  3. 03

    Chain Create a Post

    Click the + to the right of the first module and add Create a Post. Map what Upload an Image returned into the post fields, so each bundle (one item passing between modules) carries the picture along.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once. Make executes the scenario a single time and shows the bundles each module received. Open them and check the post on Medium before going further.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch on

    Click the clock on the first module. The default is every 15 minutes; adjust it, then turn the scenario on. Each module run counts as one operation on your plan.

Modules

What the Medium modules do

Medium gives you 5 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Medium1

Create a Post

Action

In Make“Creates a post on the authenticated user’s profile.”

This one writes a new article straight onto your personal Medium profile, using whatever text and title earlier modules hand it. It is the core of any Medium scenario.

When to use it
a draft gets approved in your writing tool and should land under your own name, not a company publication.
Watch out
it only works through a connection you already had before the deprecation, so test it with Run once before trusting it.
Medium2

Create a Post for Publication

Action

In Make“Creates a post and associates it with a publication on Medium.”

Same idea as a profile post, except the article gets attached to a publication on Medium, the shared space a team or brand runs. Readers find it under that masthead rather than your name alone.

When to use it
your engineering blog lives in a publication and every approved article belongs there.
Watch out
put List Publications before it so you pick the right publication instead of typing an identifier by hand.
Medium3

Upload an Image

Action

In Make“Uploads an image.”

Sends a picture from your scenario to Medium, so your cover art is already there when the post gets built. Put it before the post module, not after.

When to use it
your article has a hero image stored in a drive or generated by another module, and the post you create next should display it.
Watch out
on the Free plan Make handles files up to 5 MB, so heavy images may not pass.
Medium4

List Contributors

Search

In Make“Returns a list of contributors for a given publication.”

Returns the people attached to a given publication. Being a search, it can come back with zero, one or many bundles, one per contributor.

When to use it
you coordinate several authors and want to confirm who belongs to the publication before routing a draft or notifying someone.
Watch out
every contributor becomes its own bundle, so any module placed after it runs once per person and spends one operation each time.
Medium5

List Publications

Search

In Make“Returns a full list of publications that the user is related to in some way.”

Pulls every publication your Medium account is related to in some way, one bundle per publication. You then keep the one you need with a filter.

When to use it
right before Create a Post for Publication or List Contributors, so the publication comes from Medium itself and not from memory.
Watch out
with no publication at all it returns nothing, and the modules after it simply won't run.
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FAQ

Questions about the Medium Make integration

01Is the Medium Make integration free?
Yes, Medium is a standard app, so its modules are available on Make's Free plan. That plan gives you 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 15 minutes between scheduled runs, 5 minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams and Enterprise) drop the interval to 1 minute and remove the cap on active scenarios. Usage is counted in credits, one operation per module run. The catch is not the price: the app is deprecated, so free or paid, you can only use it with a connection that already exists.
02What do you need to connect Medium to Make?
In practice, a Medium connection that was created before the deprecation. Make's documentation lists no special prerequisite beyond a Medium account, and the usual flow is simple: add a Medium module, click Create a connection, optionally name it, authorize or paste your token, then click Save. The problem is that Make no longer lets anyone create new Medium connections, and Medium stopped generating integration tokens. So if your team already has a working connection, reuse it in every Medium module. If not, the connection step will not go through.
03Does the Medium module react in real time?
No, because Medium has no trigger in Make, neither scheduled nor instant. A scenario that uses it has to start another way. The simplest is the scheduling clock on the first module: by default a new scenario runs every 15 minutes, which is also the minimum on the Free plan, and 1 minute on paid plans. The other route is to put a trigger from another app first, for example the tool where your drafts are approved, and add the Medium actions after it. Either way, Medium itself never pings Make.
04What if a Medium module is missing or the deprecation blocks you?
It depends on what you need, but there is no workaround inside the Medium app itself. It has no Make an API Call module, so you can't call Medium's API directly from its connection. The five modules cover posts, images, publications and contributors, and nothing else is documented. If you have no existing connection, you cannot add one, since both new connections and new tokens are off the table. Your options are another app, or asking the team to look at your case and suggest a route that fits your publishing setup.
05Make or n8n for Medium?
It depends on where you stand today. If your Make organization still holds a working Medium connection and your other scenarios already live there, keeping the Medium modules in Make is the path with the fewest moving parts. If you are starting from scratch, the Make app will not let you connect, so look at the Medium node on the n8n side and check what it needs before you plan around it. The deciding criterion is not which tool is better; it is whether you can authenticate at all.
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