Dev.to

Dev.to articles by tag, author, popularity or recency, and one article in full, as typed JSON. Dev.to has no keyword search.

At a glance

Two GET endpoints under /v1/structured/devto/. Each answers { endpoint, url, credits, duration_ms, data }. Each call is charged for the data it moves, and a call we could not read is 502 TARGET_FAILED and costs nothing. Rates are estimates until production traffic measures them.

curl -G "https://api.scrapelyserp.com/v1/structured/devto/articles" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCRAPELY_API_KEY" \
  -d tag=webdev \
  -d top=7

import os
import requests

HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SCRAPELY_API_KEY']}"}

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapelyserp.com/v1/structured/devto/articles",
    headers=HEADERS,
    params={"tag": "webdev", "top": "7"},
    timeout=30,
)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
for a in data["data"]["articles"]:
    print(a["reactions"], a["comments"], a["title"])

const res = await fetch(`https://api.scrapelyserp.com/v1/structured/devto/articles?${new URLSearchParams({ tag: 'webdev', top: '7' })}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SCRAPELY_API_KEY}` },
  signal: AbortSignal.timeout(30_000),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error((await res.json()).error.code);
const data = await res.json();
for (const a of data.data.articles) console.log(a.reactions, a.comments, a.title);

Articles

Each article has id, title, description (the summary under the title), url, author (username), author_name, organization, published_at, edited_at, tags, reactions, comments, reading_time_minutes, language, cover_image and canonical_url (where a crossposted article first appeared). Articles come newest first; with top they come most-reacted first.

An empty list is a real answer, and Dev.to gives it for an unknown tag, an unknown author and a page past the end alike, so a misspelt tag cannot be told from a quiet one: check the spelling. next_cursor is null when a page comes back short.

Full reference → GET /v1/structured/devto/articles

One article

The same fields as a listing, plus body_markdown. An article that does not exist, or is not published, is a free 404 NOT_FOUND.

Full reference → GET /v1/structured/devto/article