DEV Community API

Official API for DEV.to providing access to articles, tags, and user profiles from the developer community platform.

Status
🟢 Online · 647 ms

30-day uptime
100%

Free tier
30 calls/30s unauthenticated, no key for reads

Auth
No key required

Last 30 days

Free alternatives (live ranking)

Hacker News API — 🟢 Online · Unlimited, no key, no credit card
Wikipedia REST API — 🟢 Online · Unlimited, no key, must set User-Agent
Spaceflight News API — 🟢 Online · Unlimited, no key, no credit card

Compare DEV Community API with…

DEV Community API vs Hacker News API — Unlimited, no key, no credit card
DEV Community API vs Wikipedia REST API — Unlimited, no key, must set User-Agent
DEV Community API vs Spaceflight News API — Unlimited, no key, no credit card

Official docs ↗

Frequently Asked Questions

Does DEV Community API require an API key?

No, DEV Community API is freely accessible without registration or an API key.

What is DEV Community API's free tier?

30 calls/30s unauthenticated, no key for reads

Is DEV Community API currently online?

We check DEV Community API every hour. The current status is shown at the top of this page. You can also see the 30-day uptime history in the chart above.

Implementation notes

When to use DEV Community API

DEV Community's API exposes the article catalog, comments, users, and organizations from dev.to. Use it for content aggregation, trend analysis, or building topic-filtered dev-content feeds. No key required for reads, 30 requests per 30 seconds.

Common pitfalls

Article list endpoints don't include full body content — you get title, description, tags, cover image, but to render an article you need a second call to /articles/{id}. Plan two calls per article in your pipeline.
The `tag` filter accepts a single tag, not an array. Multi-tag queries require client-side merging of multiple API responses.
Read access is keyless and unauthenticated, but write access (creating articles, comments) requires an API key from the user's dev.to settings page. The key has full account access — there's no read-only key option.

Quick start (bash)

curl "https://dev.to/api/articles?tag=javascript&per_page=10"

Embed this badge

Add a live status badge to your README, docs, or website.

Markdown

[![DEV Community API Status](https://freeapi-builder.a10ayassine.workers.dev/badge/dev-to.svg)](https://freeapi.watch/dev-to)

HTML

<a href="https://freeapi.watch/dev-to"><img src="https://freeapi-builder.a10ayassine.workers.dev/badge/dev-to.svg" alt="DEV Community API Status"/></a>