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Medium OAuth Scopes

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Medium uses OAuth 2.0 but publishes no discrete scopes — access is governed by the grant itself (e.g. client-credentials or role-based authorization) rather than per-scope consent.

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Medium implements OAuth 2.0 but publishes no discrete scopes — access is governed by the grant itself (client-credentials or role-based authorization) rather than per-scope consent.

📄 Provider scope reference: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#22-browser-based-authentication

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generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#22-browser-based-authentication
docs: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#22-browser-based-authentication
description: >-
  OAuth2 scopes for Medium's browser-based authorization flow, read from the scope table in section
  2.2 of Medium's own API documentation. Note that derive-oauth-scopes.py finds NOTHING in the
  repository's OpenAPIs — none of the six refined specs declares an oauth2 securityScheme, so this
  artifact could only come from the docs. Scope grants are closed to new integrations: Medium states
  it does not allow new integrations, and the flow is "supported for existing integrations only".
flow:
  type: authorization_code
  authorization_url: https://medium.com/m/oauth/authorize
  token_url: https://api.medium.com/v1/tokens
  refresh_url: https://api.medium.com/v1/tokens
  scope_delimiter: ','
  note: >-
    Scopes are passed comma-separated in the `scope` query parameter, not space-separated as RFC
    6749 section 3.3 specifies. Access tokens are valid for 60 days; refresh tokens do not expire.
    Self-issued integration tokens (the recommended path) carry no scope selection at all.
summary:
  scope_count: 4
  extended_count: 1
scopes:
- name: basicProfile
  description: Grants basic access to a user's profile (not including their email).
  extended: false
  operations:
  - getAuthenticatedUser
- name: listPublications
  description: Grants the ability to list publications related to the user.
  extended: false
  operations:
  - listUserPublications
- name: publishPost
  description: Grants the ability to publish a post to the user's profile.
  extended: false
  operations:
  - createUserPost
  - createPublicationPost
- name: uploadImage
  description: Grants the ability to upload an image for use within a Medium post.
  extended: true
  operations:
  - uploadImage
  note: >-
    Extended scope. Medium's docs state integrations are not permitted to request extended scope
    without explicit prior permission from Medium, and that requesting it through the standard flow
    errors if the integration has not been authorized for it.
recommended_default:
- basicProfile
- publishPost

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