Bypass Medium Paywall - Working late 2023 - Greasy Fork, Violentmonkey, Tampermonkey - Click the RAW button to install

medium.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Medium Paywall Bypass
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @run-at      document-start
// @match       *://*.medium.com/*
// @match       *://medium.com/*
// @match       *://*/*
// @grant       none
// @version     2.4
// @inject-into content
// @updateURL   https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mathix420/e0604ab0e916622972372711d2829555/raw/medium.user.js
// @downloadURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mathix420/e0604ab0e916622972372711d2829555/raw/medium.user.js
// @website     https://freedium.cfd
// @author      Mathix420, ZhymabekRoman
// @description Don't forget to remove `@match` filters you don't want.
// ==/UserScript==

// initCall is telling us if we need to inject the title observer
function mediumRedirecter(initCall = false) {
  if (
      // Allow seeing original articles that were already redirected to freedium.
      !window.location.href.endsWith('#bypass') &&
      // Do not redirect when editing on medium.
      !window.location.href.includes("/edit?source=") &&
      // Detect if we are on a medium website (regardless of the domain)
      document.head?.querySelector('meta[property="al:android:url"]')?.content?.includes('medium://p/')
    ) {
    window.location.href = 'https://freedium.cfd/' + window.location.href;
  } else if (initCall && /(.*\.|^)medium\.com$/.test(window.location.host)) {
    // Observe <title> changes
    new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
      // If title change is detected, check if a freedium redirect is required
      if (mutations[0].target.textContent) mediumRedirecter();
    }).observe(
        document.querySelector('title'),
        { subtree: true, characterData: true, childList: true }
    );
  }
}

mediumRedirecter(true);

What a wonderful script. Thank you for sharing 🙇

In case freedium goes unstable, how about disabling redirects for free posts? This is the predicate to check if it is a premium content: document.querySelector('.meteredContent') != null

@zzJinux yes, I thought about that too a couple months ago, I will try to implement it once I have more free time

@mathix420 I have already locally patched the script to add the predicate. I hope your version will do so.

@zzJinux if you want you can fork this gist and update it so I can replicate your changes

@mathix420 Just a few lines change: https://gist.github.com/zzJinux/364725e7c61810719286d94e88a4e38c I haven't had any issues.

Guys, sorry, yeah I known that's my fault. I need your help: Freedium-cfd/web#16 (comment)

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but the above script doesn't work as of the time of writing (at least in Firefox). This works though:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Medium Paywall Bypass
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @run-at      document-idle
// @match       *://*.medium.com/*
// @grant       none
// @version     2.5
// @author      Mathix420, ZhymabekRoman
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
  function mediumRedirecter() {
    if (
      !window.location.hostname.includes('freedium.cfd') &&
      window.location.hostname.includes('medium.com') &&
      !window.location.href.endsWith('#bypass') &&
      !window.location.href.includes("/edit?source=")
    ) {
      window.location.href = 'https://freedium.cfd/' + window.location.href;
    }
  }

  mediumRedirecter();
})();

Thanks for your effort.

The original script works great for me. However, your solution has one small problem: it can't work on domains other than medium.com. Here is a small list of third-party domains:

• uxplanet.org
• osintteam.blog
• ahmedelfakharany.com
• drlee.io
• generativeai.pub
• towardsdev.com
• infosecwriteups.com
• thetaoist.online
• devopsquare.com
• bettermarketing.pub
• itnext.io
• betterprogramming.pub
• curiouse.co
• betterhumans.pub
• uxdesign.cc
• thebolditalic.com
• codeburst.io
• writingcooperative.com
• entrepreneurshandbook.co
• storiusmag.com
• javascript.plainenglish.io
• code.likeagirl.io
• medium.datadriveninvestor.com
• blog.det.life
• python.plainenglish.io
• blog.stackademic.com
• ai.gopubby.com
• blog.devops.dev
• levelup.gitconnected.com
• ai.plainenglish.io

And so on.