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DEV Community

DEV Community (DEV.to) is a developer community platform built on the open-source Forem software. It provides a REST API for managing articles, comments, user profiles, organizations, podcast episodes, and accessing published developer content. The API supports creating and updating posts, retrieving community content by tag or author, managing reactions and reading lists, and administering organizations. Authentication uses an API key passed via the api-key header, with public read access available without authentication.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles DEV Community the way a machine reads it — 221 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, 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 Community scores 36.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
DEV Community Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile DEV Community

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for DEV Community. 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 19

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 Community agent_sessions API

The agent_sessions API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for agent_sessions.

DEV Community articles API

The articles API from DEV Community — 22 operation(s) for articles.

DEV Community billboards API

The billboards API from DEV Community — 3 operation(s) for billboards.

DEV Community comments API

The comments API from DEV Community — 4 operation(s) for comments.

DEV Community display ads API

The display ads API from DEV Community — 3 operation(s) for display ads.

DEV Community followed_tags API

The followed_tags API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for followed_tags.

DEV Community followers API

The followers API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for followers.

DEV Community organizations API

The organizations API from DEV Community — 8 operation(s) for organizations.

DEV Community pages API

The pages API from DEV Community — 4 operation(s) for pages.

DEV Community podcast_episodes API

The podcast_episodes API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for podcast_episodes.

DEV Community profile images API

The profile images API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for profile images.

DEV Community reactions API

The reactions API from DEV Community — 4 operation(s) for reactions.

DEV Community readinglist API

The readinglist API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for readinglist.

DEV Community segments API

The segments API from DEV Community — 5 operation(s) for segments.

DEV Community surveys API

The surveys API from DEV Community — 4 operation(s) for surveys.

DEV Community tags API

The tags API from DEV Community — 4 operation(s) for tags.

DEV Community trends API

The trends API from DEV Community — 3 operation(s) for trends.

DEV Community users API

The users API from DEV Community — 23 operation(s) for users.

DEV Community videos API

The videos API from DEV Community — 2 operation(s) for videos.

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Open Collections 20

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).

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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.

Devto Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate 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.

Devto Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Devto Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

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 Community API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 30

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.

AgentSessionIndex

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AgentSessionShow

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Article

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ArticleFlareTag

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ArticleIndex

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Billboard

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Comment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExtendedUser

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FollowedTag

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MyUser

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Page

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PodcastEpisodeIndex

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Poll

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PollOption

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PollTextResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PollVote

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProfileImage

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Segment

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SegmentUserIds

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SharedOrganization

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SharedPodcast

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SharedUser

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Survey

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SurveyWithPolls

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Trend

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserInviteParam

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VideoArticle

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 144

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Getarticles Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getfollowers Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getfollowers Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getorgusers Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getorgusers Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsegment Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsegment Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsegment Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsegments Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsegments Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsurveys Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getsurveys Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Gettags Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Gettrend Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Gettrend Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Gettrends Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getuserme Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Getuserme Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Limituser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Limituser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Spamuser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Spamuser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Suspenduser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Suspenduser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Trustuser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Trustuser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Unlimituser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Unlimituser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Unspamuser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Unspamuser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Untrustuser Response 401

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Untrustuser Response 404

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Videos Response 200

5 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 3

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.

Devto Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Devto Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Devto Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

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.

Devto Agentic Access

108 operations · 42 acting

108 operations · 42 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for DEV Community — 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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/devto · machine-readable index on apis.io

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of DEV Community, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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