It’s been a long time since I last published something on Medium. I remember when I used to publish short notes, so I thought of giving it a try again. The only thing is that now I publish regularly on different places like my own “public notes” Website, the API Changelog newsletter, my Bluesky profile, and my LinkedIn profile. What I write now is much more scattered than when I used to publish on Medium regularly.

But I’m stubborn.

So, I thought of publishing something on Medium again. However, I want to use the tools I now use to write. I want to be able to publish to Medium from Obsidian, which has been my writing tool of choice for the past two years or so. Before, when I used Ulysses, I remember it had a feature for publishing articles to Medium. I found something similar for Obsidian, the Post Medium Draft plugin.

After installing the plugin, I went to my Medium settings to get an Integration Token. Medium uses tokens as a way to authenticate API consumers. To my surprise, when I opened the settings option to generate a token, I saw the message, “Please note that you can no longer create any new tokens.” What could that mean? I did a quick search and found out that Medium no longer supports API access. Since January 2025, if you don’t have an integration token, you won’t be able to use Medium’s API.

I’m lucky because I have a couple of integration tokens, so I can still use the API and publish from Obsidian to Medium. However, the situation might change in the future, and I don’t think I want to create a habit that I know beforehand will probably end soon.