DEV.to API with Ruby

#showdev #ruby #api #webdev

I want to share with you some snipped code that manage the DEV APIs. (https://docs.dev.to/). Every snippet use rest-client gem, A simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby. In the future they will be collected in a gem :).

Articles

Articles are all the posts users create on DEV

Published articles

This endpoint allows the client to retrieve a list of articles.
"Articles" are all the posts that users create on DEV that typically show up in the feed. They can be a blog post, a discussion question, a help thread etc. but is referred to as article within the code.
By default it will return featured, published articles ordered by descending popularity.
Each page will contain 30 articles.
Responses, according to the combination of params, are cached for 24 hours.

require 'rest-client'
require 'json'

def articles(params: {})
  response = RestClient.get("https://dev.to/api/articles", { params: params })
  articles = JSON.parse(response.body)

  articles
rescue RestClient::ExceptionWithResponse => err
  err.response
  []
end

articles(params: { username: 'daviducolo' })

=> [{"type_of"=>"article",
  "id"=>212407,
  "title"=>"RubyGems Telegram Bot",
  "description"=>"Bot wrapper for the RubyGems.org API",
  "cover_image"=>nil,
  "readable_publish_date"=>"Nov 28",
  "social_image"=>"https://dev.to/social_previews/article/212407.png",
  "tag_list"=>["webdev", "rails", "ruby", "showdev"],
  "tags"=>"webdev, rails, ruby, showdev",
  "slug"=>"rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
  "path"=>"/daviducolo/rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
  "url"=>"https://dev.to/daviducolo/rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
  "canonical_url"=>"https://dev.to/daviducolo/rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
  "comments_count"=>0,
  "positive_reactions_count"=>5,
  "collection_id"=>nil,
  "created_at"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
  "edited_at"=>"2019-12-10T08:47:57Z",
  "crossposted_at"=>nil,
  "published_at"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
  "last_comment_at"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
  "published_timestamp"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
...
}]

A published article

This endpoint allows the client to retrieve a single published article given its id.

Responses are cached for 5 minutes.

require 'rest-client'
require 'json'

def article(id:)
  response = RestClient.get("https://dev.to/api/articles/#{id}")
  article = JSON.parse(response.body)

  article
rescue RestClient::ExceptionWithResponse => err
  puts err.response
  nil
end

article(id: 214552)

=> {"type_of"=>"article",
 "id"=>212407,
 "title"=>"RubyGems Telegram Bot",
 "description"=>"Bot wrapper for the RubyGems.org API",
 "cover_image"=>nil,
 "readable_publish_date"=>"Nov 28",
 "social_image"=>"https://dev.to/social_previews/article/212407.png",
 "tag_list"=>"webdev, rails, ruby, showdev",
 "tags"=>["webdev", "rails", "ruby", "showdev"],
 "slug"=>"rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
 "path"=>"/daviducolo/rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
 "url"=>"https://dev.to/daviducolo/rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
 "canonical_url"=>"https://dev.to/daviducolo/rubygems-telegram-bot-4bo6",
 "comments_count"=>0,
 "positive_reactions_count"=>5,
 "collection_id"=>nil,
 "created_at"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
 "edited_at"=>"2019-12-10T08:47:57Z",
 "crossposted_at"=>nil,
 "published_at"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
 "last_comment_at"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
 "published_timestamp"=>"2019-11-28T14:43:27Z",
 "body_html"=>
  "<p>Hi I started a little implementation of a Telegram Bot Around RubyGems.org API. Take a look at <a href=\"https://t.me/rubyg_bot\">https://t.me/rubyg_bot</a>, and give me some feedbacks.</p>\n\n<p>GitHub public repository coming soon. </p>\n\n<p>You can control Bot by sending these commands:</p>\n\n<p><strong>/info</strong> - type gem name and get some basic information type<br>\n<strong>/search</strong> - type gem name and get an array of active gems that match the query<br>\n<strong>/gems</strong> - type author username and get top 50 gems owned by specified username<br>\n<strong>/updated</strong> - returns the 50 most recently updated gems<br>\n<strong>/latest</strong> - returns the 50 gems most recently added to RubyGems.org<br>\n<strong>/popular</strong> - returns an array containing the top 50 downloaded gem versions of all time<br>\n<strong>/versions</strong> - type gem name and get an array (latest 50) of version details</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--mtvFjJEg--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://i.ibb.co/9bQNgPG/Screenshot-2019-11-28-at-16-23-10.png\" class=\"article-body-image-wrapper\"><img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--mtvFjJEg--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://i.ibb.co/9bQNgPG/Screenshot-2019-11-28-at-16-23-10.png\" alt=\"App Screeshot\" loading=\"lazy\"></a></p>\n\n<p>A little video demonstration<br>\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/daviducolo/status/1199731530429554688\">https://twitter.com/daviducolo/status/1199731530429554688</a></p>\n\n",
 "body_markdown"=>
  "---\ntitle: RubyGems Telegram Bot\npublished: true\ndescription: Bot wrapper for the RubyGems.org API\ntags: webdev,rails,ruby,showdev\n---\n\nHi I started a little implementation of a Telegram Bot Around RubyGems.org API. Take a look at https://t.me/rubyg_bot, and give me some feedbacks.\n\nGitHub public repository coming soon. \n\nYou can control Bot by sending these commands:\n\n**/info** - type gem name and get some basic information type\n**/search** - type gem name and get an array of active gems that match the query\n**/gems** - type author username and get top 50 gems owned by specified username\n**/updated** - returns the 50 most recently updated gems\n**/latest** - returns the 50 gems most recently added to RubyGems.org\n**/popular** - returns an array containing the top 50 downloaded gem versions of all time\n**/versions** - type gem name and get an array (latest 50) of version details\n\n\n![App Screeshot](https://i.ibb.co/9bQNgPG/Screenshot-2019-11-28-at-16-23-10.png)\n\n\n\nA little video demonstration\nhttps://twitter.com/daviducolo/status/1199731530429554688\n\n\n\n\n",
 "user"=>
  {"name"=>"Davide Santangelo",
   "username"=>"daviducolo",
   "twitter_username"=>"daviducolo",
   "github_username"=>"davidesantangelo",
   "website_url"=>"http://www.davidesantangelo.com",
   "profile_image"=>"https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--jMRKagS9--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_640,q_auto,w_640/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/user/profile_image/2717/P6rt05x6.jpg",
   "profile_image_90"=>"https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--8bDrK9qZ--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_90,q_auto,w_90/https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/user/profile_image/2717/P6rt05x6.jpg"},
 "flare_tag"=>{"name"=>"showdev", "bg_color_hex"=>"#091b47", "text_color_hex"=>"#b2ffe1"}}

User's Articles

discussion question, a help thread etc. but is referred to as article within the code.

Published articles will be in reverse chronological publication order.

It will return published articles with pagination. By default a page will contain 30 articles.

Require Authentication

require 'rest-client'
require 'json'

def user_articles(params: {}, api_key: )
  response = RestClient::Request.execute(method: :get, url: "https://dev.to/api/articles/me", timeout: 10, headers: { params: params, "api-key" => api_key })                       
  articles = JSON.parse(response.body)

  articles
rescue RestClient::Unauthorized, RestClient::Forbidden => err
  puts 'Access denied'
  puts err.response
  []
rescue RestClient::ExceptionWithResponse => err
  puts err.response
  []
end

you can read the complete documentation with all the endpoints here https://docs.dev.to/

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