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Introducing the dev.to MCP server

Nick Taylor on July 29, 2025

If you've been wondering how to get your AI tools talking to dev.to's content without building yet another custom integration, I've got something t...
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Ben Halpern

Very interesting stuff!

@ben, if you want to host it officially, I think that'd be awesome, and I'd also be happy to move it to the forem org if there's interest.

Will give a deep dive asap and give you an answer

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Nick Taylor

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Fayaz

Cool!

I too recently experimented with an mcp server implementation with dev.to API.
But I only did it with contest submissions!

Looks like you went full on with it. Super!

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Aditya • Edited

Hi, your dev MCP server is awesome. I have also made MCP tools for dev.to. check it out- github.com/extinctsion/mcp-py-devto

And yes it would be awesome if we can Collab and make official dev.to MCP server under forem. @ben

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Nick Taylor

Glad you like it!

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Nick Taylor

Initializing the sessions varies depending on your MCP client, e.g. VS Code, Goose, Claude etc.

not sure what you mean by sub requests. The MCP Client with the LLM will decide if it needs to call the tools in the dev.to MCP server.

Feel free to open an issue.

For example you can ask for the latest react articles. Notice how with the natural language, it knows to call the get_articles tool with the tag "react"

getting latest react articles using the dev.to mcp server in VS Code

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Aman Shukla • Edited

What is a MCP server in easy words ?

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MCP stands for Most Compromised Protocol

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Nick Taylor

Not if you secure it properly. 👀

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Nick Taylor

It’s mentioned in the blog post, but you can read more about it here, modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getti...

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Futuritous

Lovely!

Will give it a try for sure.

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DevOps Daily

This is cool!

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Siswoyo Siswoyo

This is really interesting! Thanks for sharing, I’m excited to try out the dev.to MCP server.

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Siswoyo! Lemme know what you think once you've tried it out!

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Maxx

cool stuff !!

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

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Nancy

Nice

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Chukwuma Maxwell

guy like my mind is so so happy now

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Nancy

Hi