Export Medium Reading List to CSV

medium_posts_to_csv.js

/**
 * Export Medium Reading List to CSV
 * Based on Imrat Jn article on Medium
 * https://medium.com/@imrat/1-trick-inbox-zero-readinglist-86964bc55df3
 * added titles, links
 * tested on Firefox 67 on Windows, should also work on Safari 11.1.2
 * 
 * Go to the reading list, scroll as far as you can (in order to load all the posts),
 * Put this into your console
 */

// Prepare output
var csv="title,link,datetime,readtime";

// Get all posts
var posts=document.querySelectorAll('.streamItem');

// Add line with post data to csv
posts.forEach(function(i,j) { 

  var title = i.querySelector('h3').firstChild.nodeValue;
  
  var linkHref = i.querySelector('a.link').attributes.href.value;

  var dateTimeItem = i.querySelector('time[datetime]');
  
  // Remove comma from Locale format so its compitable with Google Sheets format
  var postTime = new Date(dateTimeItem.attributes.datetime.value).toLocaleString().replace(',','');
  
  // Get the readingTime through time parent node
  var readingTime=dateTimeItem.parentNode.querySelector('.readingTime').title.replace(' min read','');
  
  // Add line
  csv += "\n\""+title+"\",\""+linkHref+"\","+postTime+","+readingTime;
});

// Function to download data to a file
// Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30832210
function download(data, filename, type) {
    var file = new Blob([data], {type: type});
    if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) // IE10+
        window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(file, filename);
    else { // Others
        var a = document.createElement("a"),
                url = URL.createObjectURL(file);
        a.href = url;
        a.download = filename;
        document.body.appendChild(a);
        a.click();
        setTimeout(function() {
            document.body.removeChild(a);
            window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);  
        }, 0); 
    }
}

// Download the data.csv file to default location
download(csv,"data.csv","text/csv")

If you change the file extension to .js it will create syntax highlighting that make the code much easier to look at :)

I know you created this a long time ago, but Google is still sending people to your Gist as one of the top results

@ajmeese7 Thanks for letting me know! Changed to js to make it look right :)

Used it once for cleaning and never looked back, I'm glad it's useful (and still working, as I assume!)