How to retrieve Medium stories for a user from the API?

The API is write-only and is not intended to retrieve posts (Medium staff told me)

You can simply use the RSS feed as such:

https://medium.com/feed/@your_profile

You can simply get the RSS feed via GET, then if you need it in JSON format just use a NPM module like rss-to-json and you're good to go.

Edit:

It is possible to make a request to the following URL and you will get the response. Unfortunately, the response is in RSS format which would require some parsing to JSON if needed.

https://medium.com/feed/@yourhandle

⚠️ The following approach is not applicable anymore as it is behind Cloudflare's DDoS protection.

If you planning to get it from the Client-side using JavaScript or jQuery or Angular, etc. then you need to build an API gateway or web service that serves your feed. In the case of PHP, RoR, or any server-side that should not be the case.

You can get it directly in JSON format as given beneath:

https://medium.com/@yourhandle/latest?format=json    

In my case, I made a simple web service in the express app and host it over Heroku. React App hits the API exposed over Heroku and gets the data.

const MEDIUM_URL = "https://medium.com/@yourhandle/latest?format=json";

router.get("/posts", (req, res, next) => {
  request.get(MEDIUM_URL, (err, apiRes, body) => {
    if (!err && apiRes.statusCode === 200) {
      let i = body.indexOf("{");
      const data = body.substr(i);
      res.send(data);
    } else {
      res.sendStatus(500).json(err);
    }
  });
});