How to use the dev.to API?

Why do we need to use it ?

In this article I am only covering the article api of Dev.to. we can use this api for our personal portfolio website. Think like you are building a portfolio website and you need to show your blogs from Dev.to in your portfolio so this api comes into play.

How to use it?

I'm using the vanilla Javascript to show the demo you can use axios as well.

Fetch the public Articles without API_KEY

const article = fetch(`https://dev.to/api/articles?username=${username}`).then((res) => res.json()); 

Fetch the public Articles by API_KEY

const articles = fetch("https://dev.to/api/articles/me", {
    headers: {
      "api-key": process.env.API_KEY,
    },
}).then((res) => res.json()); 

Fetch the Articles by Path (slug)

const article = fetch(`https://dev.to/api/articles/<your_username>/${slug}`).then((res) => res.json()); 

Fetch the Articles by article_id

const article = fetch(`https://dev.to/api/articles/${articleId}`).then((res) => res.json()); 

Fetch the Comments of article by article_id

const article = fetch(`https://dev.to/api/comments?a_id=${articleId}?sort=-created_at`).then((res) => res.json()); 

Fetch the user by user_id

const article = fetch(`https://dev.to/api/users/${userId}`).then((res) => res.json()); 

Fetch the user by username

const article = fetch(`https://dev.to/api/users/by_username?url=${username}`).then((res) => res.json()); 

So basically this is all we need to fetch the Dev.to API.

Learn How to use fetch()

Let me know what do you think?

Comments

[Rajesh khadka]

From where we can find api-key ?

[Jatin Sharma]

You can find it in Settings > Extensions.

[kodeend-dev7]

Thank you for the post

[Jatin Sharma]

My pleasure

[Akshat202002]

Hey can you help me? I'm trying to fetch my articles in my blog app, I'm able to do this by using api key but not without api key. Why is that?

[Jatin Sharma]

Hey Akshat,

You can make a get request on the following URL to get yout articles without API KEY -

https://dev.to/api/articles?username=akshat202002

in the end it's your username. It will only give the data that is publically available.

Hope it helps.

[Gass]

Thanks for the post. I was struggling to make it work due to the fact that the docs just show examples by using curl. I don't see much info about the API key and the request limit. Do you know how to use the API key for this case? And if there is a gain in rate limit by using it?

[Jatin Sharma]

To use the api key you can do like this -

const​​ data​​ = ​​​​fetch​(​"https://dev.to/api/articles/me"​, ​​ {  ​​
    headers​: ​{    ​​
        "api-key"​: ​process​.​env​.​API_KEY​,        ​​
    }​,   ​​
}​)​​.​then​(​(​res​)​​ => ​​res​.​json​(​)​)​​.​catch​(​(​err​)​​ => ​​console​.​error​(​err​)​)​;    

this example is just to fetch your blogs data with API_KEY.

[Julio Santacruz]

Hi, i'm kind of new here, do you know how long it takes to add a new article (post) on the API?

[Jatin Sharma]

I've never published one thorough API, but I don't think it takes too much time, just a few seconds maybe. There is no timing mentioned in the dev.to API documentation