How to Export Your Medium Stories and Data
Quick answer
Medium offers a ZIP of HTML files: Settings > Security and apps > Download your information. Followers are not exportable.
Most likely fix: Download your archive
How to fix it
Try these in order — the most common fix is first.
1. Download your archive
- Profile > Settings > Security and apps
- Click Download your information
- Open the emailed ZIP
Did this fix it?2. Import elsewhere
- Substack: Settings > Import
- Ghost or WordPress: convert via importer tools
Did this fix it?
Symptoms
You want to move to Substack, Ghost or WordPress.
Why it happens
- No follower export
- Medium RSS only has recent posts
This guide also covers
- export medium stories
- medium to substack
- download medium data
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