How to follow people in bulk on Medium.com using jQuery

10 Jun, 2021

This is one of the tricks on Medium.com that seems to work pretty well. Please use on your own risk.

• Open Medium.com
• Find a user with lots of followers
• Click on link to view those followers
• Then right click + inspect
• First include jQuery

var jqry = document.createElement('script');
jqry.src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jqry);
jQuery.noConflict();

Then run the following snippet to follow. It is best practice to not follow more than 120 people per day.

$('.js-followButton').each(function(index, item) {
  $(item).trigger("click");
  console.log('Followed ' + index + '/ 120');
  if (index > 100) {
      return false;
  }
});

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