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Query Number of Followers of User Using Medium API

I am trying to query the number of followers of a Medium user programmatically - but did not succeed yet.

Let me share all the things I tried, and if someone has any idea how to do it, I'd be grateful!

  1. Analyze HTML page: one can simply download the html code of a profile page of a user and do some pattern matching to get the number of followers.
  2. However, I'd like to query all the users of a publication and then get their follower numbers. For this, I found the Medium API. Here, one can do a GET request GET https://api.medium.com/v1/publications/{{publicationId}}/contributors to get all users part of that publication. However, this only returns user IDs (not profile names / profile URLs), s.t. I don't know how to either a) connect this with 1 or b) follow up with the Medium API to query the number of followers of that user id.

As a final, general question I'd like to know if there's an official successor of this API - since the docs say it's deprecated - but no new one is linked. Any other options for APIs?

Thanks!

Described above. Tried methods 1 and 2.

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