Automate Medium with Perplexity Computer

Publish articles to Medium, manage publications, set canonical URLs for SEO, and organize with tags — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Publish to Medium in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your Medium integration
postiz integrations:list

# Publish an article to Medium
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Article body in markdown..." \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"title":"My Article","subtitle":"A deep dive","tags":[{"value":"tech","label":"Tech"}]}' \
  -i "medium-id"

Medium-Specific Features

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Article Publishing

Publish long-form articles directly to Medium with full Markdown support. Write once, publish seamlessly.

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Publication Support

Publish articles under any Medium publication you belong to. Reach established audiences with a single setting.

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Canonical URLs

Set canonical URLs for SEO to link back to your original content. Avoid duplicate content penalties across platforms.

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Smart Tagging

Add up to 4 tags per article to improve discoverability. Tags help Medium surface your content to the right readers.

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Scheduled Publishing

Schedule articles for future publication with precise timestamps. Plan your content calendar weeks in advance.

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AI-Powered Workflows

Let AI agents draft, format, and publish your articles. From idea to published post without leaving your chat app.

How It Works

Find Your Medium Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Medium integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Medium
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="medium")'

# Get Medium settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <medium-id>

Write Your Article

Compose your article content in Markdown. Medium supports rich formatting including headers, code blocks, images, and embedded links.

Content

# Write your article content
cat > article.md << 'EOF'
# Building Better APIs

APIs are the backbone of modern software.
Here's how to design them right.

## Key Principles

1. **Consistency** - Use predictable patterns
2. **Versioning** - Plan for change
3. **Documentation** - Make it discoverable
EOF

Publish Your Article

Create a post with your article content, title, subtitle, tags, and optional publication and canonical URL settings.

Publish

postiz posts:create \
  -c "$(cat article.md)" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Building Better APIs",
    "subtitle": "A practical guide to API design",
    "canonical": "https://myblog.com/better-apis",
    "publication": "pub-id",
    "tags": [
      {"value": "api", "label": "API"},
      {"value": "software", "label": "Software"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "medium-id"

Medium Settings Reference

Every Medium post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "medium"
`title`	string	Yes	Article title (min 2 characters)
`subtitle`	string	Yes	Article subtitle (min 2 characters)
`canonical`	string	No	Original URL for SEO canonical link
`publication`	string	No	Publication ID to publish under
`tags`	array	No	Up to 4 tags: [{value: string, label: string}]

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Medium publishing scenarios.

Simple Article with Tags

settings.json

{
  "title": "Getting Started with TypeScript",
  "subtitle": "A beginner-friendly introduction",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "typescript", "label": "TypeScript"},
    {"value": "javascript", "label": "JavaScript"},
    {"value": "programming", "label": "Programming"}
  ]
}

Cross-Posted Article with Canonical URL

settings.json

{
  "title": "How We Scaled to 1M Users",
  "subtitle": "Lessons from our growth journey",
  "canonical": "https://engineering.myblog.com/scaling-to-1m",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "startup", "label": "Startup"},
    {"value": "scaling", "label": "Scaling"},
    {"value": "engineering", "label": "Engineering"}
  ]
}

Publication Article

settings.json

{
  "title": "The Future of AI Agents",
  "subtitle": "Why autonomous agents are the next paradigm",
  "publication": "towards-data-science-id",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "ai", "label": "Artificial Intelligence"},
    {"value": "agents", "label": "AI Agents"},
    {"value": "automation", "label": "Automation"},
    {"value": "future", "label": "Future"}
  ]
}

What is Perplexity Computer?

Perplexity Computer is a general-purpose digital worker that decomposes high-level goals into subtasks, spawns specialized sub-agents across 19 AI models, and delivers finished results — from code to marketing campaigns.

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Task Decomposition

Perplexity Computer breaks complex social media campaigns into subtasks and handles each one with specialized sub-agents for maximum quality.

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Multi-Model

Spawns sub-agents across 19 different AI models, picking the best model for each subtask — content writing, image generation, scheduling, and more.

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End-to-End Delivery

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Perplexity Computer can publish your Medium articles on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Perplexity Computer

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Perplexity Computer automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Perplexity Computer what commands are available, what environment variables are needed, and how to compose Medium articles with the right settings.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz through tool integration
✓Tasks are decomposed across specialized sub-agents
✓Each sub-agent picks the best model for its subtask
✓Results are delivered end-to-end with verification

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Perplexity Computer discovers Postiz
# through its tool integration system
# and decomposes tasks across sub-agents

Medium Publishing with Perplexity Computer

Message Perplexity Computer from any platform — it reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Medium integration, and handles the entire publishing workflow autonomously.

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From Any Chat App

Give Perplexity Computer a high-level go...

Send a message to Perplexity Computer from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Medium account via Postiz, formats the article, and publishes it — all while you go about your day.

Perplexity Computer

You: Create a week-long Medium
  campaign for our product launch

Perplexity Computer:
  Breaking this into subtasks:
  1. Research trending topics
  2. Draft 5 posts with varied angles
  3. Find your Medium integration
  4. Schedule posts across the week

  All 5 posts scheduled!
  Mon-Fri at 10:00 AM.

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Scheduled & Proactive

Perplexity Computer can execute rec...

Perplexity Computer supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks a folder for new Markdown drafts and publishes them to Medium automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Perplexity Computer Task

Tell Perplexity Computer:

"Every Monday morning, create a
week's worth of Medium content
based on trending topics in our
industry. Schedule one post per day
at 10 AM. Use engaging hooks and
relevant hashtags."

Perplexity Computer will:
  1. Research current trends
  2. Generate 5 unique posts
  3. Schedule via Postiz
  4. Report results back

Why Perplexity Computer + Postiz for Medium

Perplexity Computer makes Postiz a natural fit for your Medium workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Decomposes complex Medium campaigns into optimized subtasks
✓19 AI models — picks the best one for each part of the workflow
✓End-to-end delivery from ideation to scheduled publishing
✓Research-powered content based on real-time trending topics
✓Cross-post to Medium + other platforms in a single request
✓Available to Perplexity Max subscribers

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Medium
metadata:
  perplexity-computer:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Medium Settings
title, subtitle, canonical,
publication, tags

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Medium integration, formats your article, applies tags and publication settings, and publishes the post.

Claude Code

> Publish my API design article to Medium
  under the engineering publication with
  a canonical URL back to my blog

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat api-design.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":
      "Building Better APIs",
      "subtitle":"A practical guide",
      "canonical":"https://myblog.com/apis",
      "publication":"eng-pub-id",
      "tags":[...]}' \
    -i "medium-id"

Medium + Other Platforms

Publish the same article to Medium and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Cross-post an article to Medium and Dev.to
postiz posts:create \
  -c "$(cat article.md)" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Building Better APIs",
    "subtitle": "A practical guide",
    "canonical": "https://myblog.com/better-apis",
    "tags": [
      {"value": "api", "label": "API"},
      {"value": "software", "label": "Software"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "medium-id,devto-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Medium articles
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat articles/day${day}.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T08:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":"Day '"$day"' Insights","subtitle":"Weekly series","tags":[{"value":"series","label":"Series"}]}' \
    -i "medium-id"
done

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