LibMedium

**Privacy-focused proxy for medium.com**

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## Status Usable. Should you run into a `HTTP 500 Internal Server Error`, please file a bug report with the URL of the post you were trying to read and the git commit hash of the build. Git commit hash can be obtained from [/api/v1/meta/build](https://libmedium.batsense.net/api/v1/meta/build). This proxy works by interacting with Medium's undocumented(probably private but unauthenticated) API. So I've had to make assumptions and tweak API schematics as I run into errors. ## Features - [x] proxy images - [x] proxy GitHub gists - [x] render posts - [x] syntax highlighting for gists - [ ] user pages(WIP) - [ ] RSS feeds ## Why? Knowledge is the true wealth of humanity. If it weren't for our ancestors, who chose to pass down their knowledge and experiences, we would still be a primitive species. Whatever advancement that we as a species have achieved is because we chose to share information. To put a paywall on knowledge like that is both obscene and goes against the very nature of humanity. It is possible to run a sustainable publication business while still respecting freedom. [LWN.net](https://lwn.net) is one of my favourite publications that has been around forever. So it is possible. I hope medium.com comes up with other, non-harmful ways to run a sustainable business. ## Instances | Instance | Country | Provider | Host | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------- | | https://libmedium.batsense.net | India | Airtel | @realaravinth | | https://md.vern.cc | US | Hetzner | [~vern](https://vern.cc) | | http://md.vernccvbvyi5qhfzyqengccj7lkove6bjot2xhh5kajhwvidqafczrad.onion/ | N/A | Hetzner | [~vern](https://vern.cc) | | http://vernaqj2qr2pijpgvf3od6ssc3ulz3nv52gwr3hba5l6humuzmgq.b32.i2p/ | N/A | Hetzner | [~vern](https://vern.cc) | | https://medium.hostux.net | France | Gandi | [hostux](https://hostux.net) | | https://r.sudovanilla.org | US | Selfhosted | [SudoVanilla](https://sudovanilla.org) | | https://libmedium.ducks.party | DE | Datalix | [ducks.party](https://ducks.party) | ## Deploy 1. Grab [`./config/default.toml`](./config/default.toml) and make necessary changes 2. AMD64 pre-compiled images are available on DockerHub. ``` docker run -d \ -v ./config/default.toml:/etc/libmedium/config.toml \ -p 8082:7000 \ --restart always \ --name libmedium \ realaravinth/libmedium ``` If you are on a different architecture, run make docker and then run the above command. ``` make docker ``` --- Inspired by [Scribe - An Alternative Medium Frontend](https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe)