Medium: Issues with Cloudfare and similar

[mariomeyrelles]

Hello Maxime,

Firstly I would like to send you many thanks for sharing this code. I was able to successfully publish a blog post on medium and dev.to!

In order to make this work, I had to change the user-agent of the requests to a non-browser user agent because for Medium, in many calls to their API I received a weird answer that after a lot of debugging it seemed to be Cloudfare page. I fixed this by manually changing the user agent to something like "Postman 7.29.1" in order to make it work for API calls.

I am not sure what is the best approach here - should it be configurable? Should it be hardcoded for something that is a non-browser call?

Kind Regards,
Mário

[maximegel]

Hi Mario,

Thanks for your investigation.

I think the best would be to make it configurable as you suggest and maybe document it in a troubleshooting section or the readme.

If you are willing to make a PR that would be great 🙂