The state of dev.to v0 api

To prevente the abuse of web scraper on dev.to i want to share what i learn about the dev.to v0 api.

Articles

• https://dev.to/api/articles get a list of the latest 30 articles with tags career, discuss and productivity (it seems to be the default list of tags)
• https://dev.to/api/articles?tag=react get the latest 30 articles tagged with react
• https://dev.to/api/articles?page=23&tag=react get the 30 articles at page 23 tagged with react
• https://dev.to/api/articles?username=alfredosalzillo get the latest 30 articles of the user with username alfredosalzillo

Users

• https://dev.to/api/users/by_username?url=alfredosalzillo get the info of the user with username alfredosalzillo
• https://dev.to/api/users/149157 get the info of the user with id 149157
• https://dev.to/api/users/?state=follow_suggestions get a list of follow suggestions
• https://dev.to/api/users/?state=sidebar_suggestions&tag=react i don't now what this really do
• https://dev.to/api/users/by_username get an user with a null username, i think this is a bug.

Tags

• https://dev.to/api/tags get the list of the latest 10 tags
• https://dev.to/api/tags?page=2 get the list of the 10 tags at page 2

Comments

[Michael Lustig - [e-mail]]

Hey Alfredo, thanks for the resource. Did you gather this info by guessing and checking or did you look at the source? github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

In either case, do you know if there's a way to look up a user by Github username?

Seems like this is where the magic happens, but I don't know how to read Ruby: github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

[Robert Peterman]

Thanks for putting this all in one spot Alfredo!

[Guillermo Tobar]

Hi, how do I get the content of the article?

[Alfredo Salzillo]

to get the content of an article

dev.to/api/articles/{articleID}

for example, for this article

dev.to/api/articles/94179

[Abdul Basit]

How can I get all articles of specific user?

[Alfredo Salzillo]

All API return paged lists, the only way to get all the articles of a user is to call dev.to/api/articles?username={user... until the reply is an empty array.

[Marco Damaceno]

Is it possible to get users by location?

[Alfredo Salzillo]

For all, I have found the openapi3.0 definitions of all the API and have created a swagger website.

dev-to-swagger

[Peter Salomonsson]

Is it possible to get the articles in created_at desc? Or do I need to sort it myself??

[Alfredo Salzillo]

It's not possible, as today you can only get articles by published_at desc based on the top query parameters

[MartinJ]

Thanks for this - very interesting. If you have a spare moment, could you tell me how to find the articleID for a post please?