Save Backup from Medium.com Stories — HTML Pack Imagesaver
It is always advisable to have a backup from your own Medium.com Stories. Unfortunatelly, there is no one stop or even automated backup method by Medium.com, so let’s see a workaround.
We will use the Medium.com’s ‘Download your information’ feature to save all our posts as backups, but that doesn’t includes the pictures — so this is only the first step to make a proper backup.
Click on Settings in Medium.com’s user menu:
Select Account, then click on the button ‘Download.zip’ at the Download your information section:
Click on Export on the next page. Medium.com needs 1–2 days to send all the data in archive zips to your mail address. Check your mailbox you should receive a mail with link where you can actually download the zip package:
The downloaded zip file is actually a pack of HTML files. The problem is, the images are missing from the archive — so it is not a proper full backup of your Stories yet. To make it complete, let’s download all the images with my script HTML Pack Image Saver.
It requires Python 3, if you don’t have, install it from here.
Install the HTML Pack Image Saver via pip:
python -m pip install HTMLPackImagesaverRun it as following:
python -m HTMLPackImagesaverselect the downloaded zip from medium:
Then the script check all html files in the zip, download the images and replace the image tags in the html files with the local url of the images:
The result is the original zip file with images in Image folders. E.g. see the posts folder inside the zip:
