Updated: August 21, 2026
Medium remains a popular home for writers, thought leaders, and companies publishing editorial content without maintaining their own blog infrastructure. What many Medium publishers don't realize is that every profile and publication on Medium generates a fully functional RSS feed automatically — no plugin, no setup, no special account tier required. That feed is everything you need to automate your story distribution across social media.
This guide covers exactly where to find your Medium RSS feed and how to connect it to PostRSS so every new story you publish reaches your social accounts automatically.
Finding Your Medium RSS Feed
Medium generates feeds using a predictable URL pattern depending on whether you're syndicating a personal profile or a publication.
Personal Profile Feed
If you publish under your own Medium username, your feed is available at:
medium.com/feed/@yourusername
Publication Feed
If you write for or manage a Medium publication, its feed follows this pattern:
medium.com/feed/publication-name
The publication name is the same slug that appears in the publication's URL — for example, a publication at medium.com/design-matters has its feed at medium.com/feed/design-matters.
Custom Domain Publications
If your Medium publication runs on a custom domain rather than a medium.com subdomain, the same feed pattern typically still applies at yourdomain.com/feed — Medium's underlying feed infrastructure carries over even when the publication is presented under a custom domain.
Verifying Your Feed
As with any platform, open the feed URL directly in your browser before connecting it to any automation tool. You should see structured XML listing your recent stories with titles, excerpts, and links.
Why Medium Publishers Benefit Particularly From Automation
Medium's own internal distribution — its recommendation algorithm and curated topic pages — is genuinely valuable, but it isn't something publishers control directly, and a story's internal Medium reach can vary widely regardless of its quality. Automating external distribution to your own social channels gives you a reliable, controllable layer of reach that doesn't depend on Medium's internal curation decisions.
This matters more for Medium specifically than for a typical self-hosted blog, because Medium publishers often don't have another obvious distribution channel already built into their workflow the way a WordPress site owner might through existing site traffic and SEO.
Step-by-Step: Connecting Medium to PostRSS
Step 1: Locate and Verify Your Feed
Using the patterns above, find your feed URL and confirm it loads correctly.
Step 2: Create Your PostRSS Account
Sign up at PostRSS.com and check the pricing page for a plan matching your publishing frequency.
Step 3: Add Your Medium Feed
Paste your feed URL into PostRSS and confirm the preview shows your recent stories correctly, including titles and any featured images.
Step 4: Connect Your Social Platforms
Connect Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and VKontakte through their official authorization flows.
Step 5: Build a Template That Fits Editorial Content
Medium stories tend to be more editorial and opinion-driven than a typical product update, so your template should reflect that — leading with a compelling excerpt or the story's core argument rather than a generic "new post" framing.
Step 6: Test and Launch
Publish a test story and confirm formatting displays correctly across every connected platform before relying on full automation. See our step-by-step automation guide for the foundational setup steps that apply across every platform.
Handling Medium's Featured Image in Automated Posts
Medium stories typically use the story's first embedded image or an explicitly set featured image as the visual representation in the RSS feed. Since this image becomes what displays across every automated social post, it's worth being deliberate about the featured image on every story — particularly for platforms like Pinterest, where a properly formatted vertical image performs meaningfully better than a horizontal one pulled from mid-article.
Best Practices for Medium RSS Automation
Write your subtitle with distribution in mind
Medium's subtitle field often becomes the description pulled into your RSS feed, which in turn becomes your social post's supporting text. Writing a subtitle that works as a standalone hook — not just a continuation of the title — improves how your automated posts read on every platform.
Match your platform mix to your content type
Opinion and thought-leadership content tends to perform well on LinkedIn and X; more visual, list-style, or how-to content can find real traction on Pinterest. Medium's broad content range means it's worth thinking about this deliberately rather than defaulting to every platform for every story.
Keep publication and personal profile feeds separate
If you write both under your own profile and for a publication, connecting each as its own feed lets you apply different templates and platform mixes suited to each context, rather than treating all your Medium output identically.
Comparing Medium's Reach Model to a Self-Hosted Blog
It's worth understanding why automation plays a different role for Medium publishers than for someone running their own WordPress site. On a self-hosted blog, organic search traffic tends to be the dominant, most controllable growth channel over time — you invest in SEO, and traffic compounds as your site gains authority. Medium's discovery model works differently: internal distribution is driven largely by Medium's own curation and recommendation systems, and individual stories can perform very differently from each other for reasons that aren't always transparent to the writer.
This isn't a criticism of Medium's model — for many writers, the platform's built-in audience and low barrier to publishing are exactly the appeal. But it does mean that external distribution channels you control directly, like your social accounts, carry proportionally more weight in a Medium publishing strategy than they might for a blog with strong organic search performance already doing heavy lifting. Automated social distribution becomes less of a nice-to-have supplement and more of a core pillar of how a story finds its audience beyond whatever Medium's algorithm decides to surface it to.
Building a Consistent Cross-Platform Voice From Medium Content
Because Medium attracts such a wide range of content — technical deep dives, personal essays, business analysis, creative writing — publishers sometimes end up with automated social posts that feel inconsistent from one story to the next, simply because the underlying content varies so much. Rather than writing a single template and hoping it flexes to fit everything, it's worth defining two or three template variants tied to your actual content categories (if you write across genres) and applying the matching one per story, or per publication if you contribute to more than one.
This extra structure takes a bit more setup than a single blanket template, but it pays off in automated posts that read as intentional rather than mechanically generated — an important distinction on platforms like LinkedIn and X, where audiences are quick to disengage from content that feels like it was posted by a bot rather than a person with an actual point of view.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Using the wrong feed URL format. Publication feeds and personal profile feeds use different URL patterns — double-check which one you actually need before connecting it.
- Ignoring the subtitle field. A missing or generic subtitle produces a weak, generic-sounding automated post description across every platform.
- Not testing custom domain publications. If your publication runs on a custom domain, verify the feed URL directly rather than assuming the standard pattern applies without checking.
- Treating every story identically regardless of topic. A single blanket template across a wide-ranging Medium publication misses the chance to match tone and platform to each story's actual subject matter.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a Medium Partner Program membership to access my RSS feed?
No. RSS feeds are available for any Medium profile or publication regardless of Partner Program membership status.
Can I automate a publication I write for but don't own?
Yes, as long as the publication's feed is publicly accessible at its standard URL, which it is by default for public Medium publications — you don't need administrative access to the publication itself to read its feed.
Will PostRSS pick up the correct featured image from my Medium stories?
PostRSS extracts the image included in your feed, which is typically the story's featured or first embedded image as Medium presents it in the RSS output.
Can I connect both my personal profile and a publication I write for?
Yes — connect each as a separate feed with its own platform settings and template, since they're independent feed URLs.
Does automating my Medium feed affect my standing in the Partner Program?
No. RSS-based distribution to your own social accounts is separate from Medium's Partner Program mechanics, which are based on member reading engagement within Medium itself, not on how your content is shared externally.
Get Every Medium Story in Front of Your Social Audience
Medium's internal reach is valuable but unpredictable — automating your own distribution layer with PostRSS gives every story a reliable path to your social audience, independent of Medium's curation algorithm.
See PostRSS pricing and connect your Medium feed today.