How to make a backup of all your Medium stories?

One of the most important features that every Mediumer should know about 🤷

So yes, I have to admit… Recently I became a maniac of Medium: reading, writing, responding, commenting and trying to figure out all the features that this platform has. 🤓

And, in my opinion, this backup feature is a bit “hidden” — it does not get enough attention that it deserves. 💾

So, StrangeCash 👽 to the rescue! 🦸‍♂️😂

Steps to make a complete backup of your Medium stories:

1. Login to your Medium account and go to Settings
2. There click on Security and apps
3. Then click on Download your information
4. On the opened window, click on the green button Export

As far as I know, Medium does not allow to upload videos directly into their editor. And I am too lazy to create YouTube / Vimeo account for that. 🦥

So the whole process can be seen in this GIF:

And that’s it folks! You will receive a link with a .zip archive with all of your Medium data. The file structure looks like this:

So as you can see it is not only your stories/articles/posts in HTML format, but also bookmarks, claps, highlights, comments and even IP addresses!

Amazing how much data we leave as a trace, huh? 🧐

So now you can sleep peacefully — you have a backup and in case Medium goes down or some Black Swan event happens, you have all of your data saved!

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