Do you want to know which Medium account does a business use? Then use an API!
When you’re trying to promote a product or just want to get to know your customers and competitors better, it can be really useful to know which platforms they are using to send a message about their business. One of these can be Medium, a blogging platform like WordPress or Blogger that is in constant growth.
Evan Williams created this platform in 2012, and it is now owned by A Medium Corporation. This is an example of social journalism, with a mix of amateur and professional persons and publications, as well as exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium, and is frequently viewed as a blog host.
This website can be used for many different purposes, like sharing life stories or writing fiction. However, most companies use it to talk about their products, how they work, how are they different, among many other things. This is done to get the readers’ attention and make them want to use the service offered.
So, like we said, it can be useful to know how a business is using this and how they communicate and show themselves in a blog that has so many readers and continues to grow day after day. But how can you know which is their Medium profile? Well, you can try and use an API!
About APIs
If you don’t know what an API is then we’ll explain it in simple words. This is a technology that collects data from a place and then provides it to the person who requested it. This is done by letting two computers or applications connect and communicate with each other.
APIs are used for many different things and in almost every website we use on a daily basis, even if you don’t notice it. In this case, it can be used for requiring information about a domain and obtaining all types of data. To do this, first you have to find a software that provides you with the API and can give you accurate and relevant information.
There are a few of these online and it can be extremely time consuming to choose one that fits your needs. To help you with that and explain this process better, we recommend using Klazify, one of the most popular and complete data API available at the moment.
To use it, you need to:
- Obtain the URL of the company’s website.
- Sign in to www.klazify.com to obtain your own private API key.
- Copy the domain and paste it into the supplied space, then confirm that you are not a robot and submit it.
- The API answer will then be delivered to you in one or more programming languages.
- Search for the ‘tech’ tag and see if the domain has a medium account linked to it.
It will look something like this:
"tech": [
"google_apps",
"aws_route_53",
"double_click",
"amazon_ses",
"mailgun",
"stripe",
"quickbooks",
"db2",
]
That’s it! It’s quite easy, and it may benefit you and your organization in a variety of ways.
More Information About Klazify
Klazify is a free and extensively used API for categorizing websites that employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) and a Machine Learning Engine. This API connects to the site or URL you provide, retrieves data, and then categorizes it into over 385 different categories. The response will be shown in a variety of computer languages, such as JSON, PHP, and Python.
Also published on Medium.