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Convert the markdown body to HTML with pandoc, then simulate a paste event carrying text/html data into Medium's .js-postField editor. Insert the title separately with execCommand insertText, since Medium's editor model ignores direct DOM writes.

Medium's editor is a contenteditable with its own data model that does not parse raw markdown syntax. Pasting plain markdown yields unformatted text, so the content must be converted to HTML and delivered through a paste event Medium's handler understands.

Medium treats blank lines inside code blocks as paragraph separators and splits one block into several. Replace empty lines inside fenced code blocks with a zero-width space (U+200B) before conversion so each block stays intact.

Medium's native editor has no canonical URL field; only the Import flow sets one. A story published through the editor is purely a reach channel and does not pass link equity back to the original site.

No, Medium flattens pasted HTML tables into plain text. Convert any important tables into lists in the markdown source before publishing to preserve the information structure.

Clearing and re-pasting a published story's body with synthetic events corrupts Medium's internal model, causing a save error. Publish a fresh new story with the corrected content and delete the old one instead.