Error while trying to access public stories from Medium API on client side

Question

I'm trying to access Medium's API to get a list of public stories from a user. However, I'm getting a CORS error when I try to access it on the client side. Here's the code

axios.get(`http://medium.com/@ev/latest`).then((res)=>{
  console.log(res.data)
})
.catch((error)=>{
  console.log(error)
})

I did some research and found this github issue, but couldn't find any workaround. Is there any way to make this request work on the client side?

Answer 1

This is currently not allowed by Medium (There server doesn't respond with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header). Probably because of security concerns.

As suggested in the GitHub issue you linked to, a possible solution will be to tunnel the request to Medium through your server (as proxy). You can create an endpoint on your server (i.e. http://my-server.com/get-medium/@ev/latest) that will retrieve the requested Medium page (on the server side) and will return it to the client side.

This comment to the issue describes a way to do that using AWS Lambda as the proxy server - link