Dev To
Access Forem articles, users and other resources via API. For a real-world example of Forem in action, check out [DEV](https://www.dev.to). All endpoints can be accessed with the 'api-key' header and a accept header, but some of them are accessible publicly without authentication. Dates and date times, unless otherwise specified, must be in the [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Dev To the way a machine reads it — 42 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Dev To scores 31.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 21/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Dev To
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dev To. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 15
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Dev.to Webhooks API
The Dev.to Webhooks API allows developers to subscribe to real-time notifications for events occurring on the Dev.to platform. By creating webhook subscriptions, applications ca...
dev-to Articles API
Endpoints for creating, reading, updating, and managing articles (blog posts, discussions, help threads) on the platform.
dev-to Comments API
Endpoints for retrieving comments on articles and podcast episodes, including threaded conversation views.
dev-to DisplayAds API
Endpoints for managing display advertisements on the platform. Requires admin-level API key.
dev-to FollowedTags API
Endpoints for retrieving the tags followed by the authenticated user.
dev-to Followers API
Endpoints for retrieving followers of the authenticated user.
dev-to Organizations API
Endpoints for retrieving organization details, members, and articles.
dev-to Pages API
Endpoints for managing static pages on the platform. Requires admin-level API key.
dev-to PodcastEpisodes API
Endpoints for retrieving published podcast episodes.
dev-to ProfileImages API
Endpoints for retrieving profile images of users and organizations.
dev-to Reactions API
Endpoints for creating and toggling reactions on articles, comments, and users.
dev-to ReadingList API
Endpoints for retrieving the authenticated user's reading list.
dev-to Tags API
The Tags API from dev-to — 1 operation(s) for tags.
dev-to Users API
Endpoints for retrieving user profiles and managing user accounts.
dev-to Webhooks API
Endpoints for creating, listing, retrieving, and deleting webhook subscriptions for real-time event notifications.
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Open Collections 16
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Comments API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles DisplayAds API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles FollowedTags API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Followers API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Organizations API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Pages API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles PodcastEpisodes API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles ProfileImages API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Reactions API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles ReadingList API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Tags API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONDev.to Forem Articles Webhooks API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Dev To Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Dev To Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Dev To Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Dev.to Webhooks Events
The Dev.to Webhooks event-driven interface allows applications to receive real-time HTTP POST callbacks when specific events occur on the Dev.to platform. Webhook subscriptions ...
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Dev To Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Dev To API Rules
SPECTRALDev To API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Dev.to Article
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Dev To — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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