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Dev community articles feed

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Dev.to public API lists articles, tags and users as JSON. Read endpoints need no key — great for dev-news widgets.

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Uptime history
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328P50 · ms
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Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 17 ms, slowest 945 ms, most recent 285 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1

[
  {
    "type_of": "article",
    "id": 4036380,
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineers and the future of software engineering",
    "description": "Cover Image: Sierra’s Natalie Meurer at the AI Engineer World’s Fair today.  Natalie Meurer is Head...",
    "readable_publish_date": "Jul 2",
    "slug": "forward-deployed-engineers-and-the-future-of-software-engineering-jll",
    "path": "/dailycontext/forward-deployed-engineers-and-the-future-of-software-engineering-jll",
    "url": "https://dev.to/dailycontext/forward-deployed-engineers-and-the-future-of-software-engineering-jll"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1"
const res = await fetch("https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/articles?per_page=1328 mschecked 6h ago
GET/api/articles?per_page=1PROBED

Dev community articles feed

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/api/articles?limit=5

Articles — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Dev.to: common questions

Is Dev.to free to use?

Yes — Dev.to is a free developer tools API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Dev.to need an API key?

No — Dev.to needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Dev.to from the browser?

Yes — Dev.to returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Dev.to up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Dev.to is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 328 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.