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Medium Article Unlocker
Paste a medium.com link and read the whole story right here — clean type, about 68 characters per line, no app to install, no recommendation feed, just the article.
Read the story
Fetching the article and rebuilding the body…
How it works
Copy the story URL from Medium or from wherever you found it. medium.com and publication subdomains such as towardsdatascience.medium.com both work.
The server asks the freedium reader mirror for the full story (freedium-mirror-web.vercel.app/read?url=…, then freedium-mirror.cfd/<link>), falling back to the public Medium page — then rebuilds the article with headings, quotes, lists, images and code kept, and the app banners, follow buttons and recommendation rails dropped.
The story renders as one quiet card in this page. Copy the whole text or download a .txt for your notes — nothing is saved on the server.
What stays, what goes
Kept
- · Headings, paragraphs and inline links
- · Block quotes and both list styles
- · Hero images with their alt text
- · Code blocks, reading time and word count
Removed
- · Top navigation and "Open in app" prompts
- · Follow / clap / share rails
- · "Recommended from Medium" and other feeds
- · Sign-up, banner and upsell modules
FAQ
Where does the full text come from?
From the freedium reader mirror, which re-serves the story in a clean layout, plus the public medium.com page as a fallback. The tool reads whatever that mirror or page publishes for the link you paste — it never logs in, never uses your account and never invents a sentence that was not in the source.
I got a "refused the read" message — what now?
The mirror or Medium rate-limited the burst of reads. The reader walks down its layers — the freedium reader mirror, the path-style freedium mirror, then the direct and crawler reads of medium.com — and pauses once to retry a 403 before moving on. If every layer is refused you get that sentence instead of a broken card: wait a minute and press Unlock again.
Why does a link sometimes fail?
Deleted stories answer 404, profile, tag and homepage links carry no article body, and a member-only story can arrive as a teaser only. Each of those comes back as a plain sentence telling you what happened — never a stack trace.
Is anything stored?
Nothing. The page is fetched, parsed and thrown away in one request — no database, no cache and no copy of the article kept on the server.
Why is the layout so plain?
Because reading is the whole point: one column, roughly 68 characters per line, a serif face for headings and body, and a single accent colour on the buttons. No sidebar, no feed, no pop-ups.