Free Medium

Simple JS program that will prompt you for the URL of a Medium (or any other paywalled) article you would like to read, which will then direct you to a page where you can view the contents of the article for free.

Steps to create the Bookmarklet

1. Copy the contents of dist/index.js
2. In a Browser, create a new Bookmark
3. In the Bookmark form, first enter:

javascript: (() => {})();

4. In the function block ({}), paste in the code you copied from dist/index.js

• Note: Do not add any newlines, this program must fit onto one line to be valid

javascript: (() => {const medUrl=prompt("Input the Medium Article URL you would like to view");const googCacheUrl="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:";let fullUrl="";if(medUrl){fullUrl=googCacheUrl+medUrl;location.assign(fullUrl)})();

5. Save the bookmark

Steps to run the Bookmarklet

1. Click on your Bookmarklet
2. When prompted, enter the URL of the Medium article you want to view (Ex., https://medium.com/@achillesmoraites/serve-a-react-app-with-express-server-c5986769bac)

3. See that you get redirected to a page that looks like this:

4. Click "Text-only version"

5. See the full article is displayed (without pictures)

Extras

• You can create a URL searchbar shortcut like "fm" that will activate this shortcut when typed.