Dev.to API 001 - Starting with the API
Rodrigo Cordeiro
Posted on April 21, 2020
On this doc I'll write about my process of learning to use the api of the dev.to. To requests that needs an authorization, you can use the API Token or OAuth2 authentication. I'm going to use the API Token, so the first step is to acess your account settings and go to the account section (or follow this link) and generate your API Key. Our hello world will be a GET request that retrieves the posts of the feed, you can send some parameters, see all the possibilities at the api documentation.
We are going to send a GET request to https://dev.to/api/articles.
curl
curl https://dev.to/api/articles
node
var unirest = require("unirest");
unirest
.get('https://dev.to/api/articles')
.then((response)=>{
console.log(response.body)
})
This will return a list of objects containing some information about the article and its author, see an example below:
{
"type_of": "article",
"id": 315312,
"title": "I Built an App to Accompany Questlove’s DJ Set in 20 Minutes",
"description": "Twelve hours of live music, fifteen thousand words of commentary, one Glitch app",
"cover_image": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--cdWtimkP--/c_imagga_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_420,q_auto,w_1000/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ixvv8wylkr9xwp4b2jvw.png",
"readable_publish_date": "Apr 20",
"social_image": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--eouLbf3o--/c_imagga_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_500,q_auto,w_1000/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ixvv8wylkr9xwp4b2jvw.png",
"slug": "i-built-an-app-to-accompany-questlove-s-dj-set-in-20-minutes-5ep4",
"path": "/glitch/i-built-an-app-to-accompany-questlove-s-dj-set-in-20-minutes-5ep4",
"url": "https://dev.to/glitch/i-built-an-app-to-accompany-questlove-s-dj-set-in-20-minutes-5ep4",
"canonical_url": "https://glitch.com/glimmer/post/questlove-live-prince-music-notes-app",
"comments_count": 0,
"positive_reactions_count": 36,
"collection_id": null,
"created_at": "2020-04-20T21:49:18Z",
"edited_at": null,
"crossposted_at": null,
"published_at": "2020-04-20T21:58:09Z",
"last_comment_at": "2020-04-20T21:58:09Z",
"published_timestamp": "2020-04-20T21:58:09Z",
"tag_list": [
"showdev",
"javascript",
"node"
],
"tags": "showdev, javascript, node",
"user": {
"name": "Anil Dash",
"username": "anildash",
"twitter_username": "anildash",
"github_username": null,
"website_url": "https://anildash.com/",
"profile_image": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--5QdTfjfY--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_640,q_auto,w_640/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/user/profile_image/35740/7a2a5a03-9913-4a5d-a5d8-d89881c5de32.jpg",
"profile_image_90": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--_jstlNmz--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_90,q_auto,w_90/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/user/profile_image/35740/7a2a5a03-9913-4a5d-a5d8-d89881c5de32.jpg"
},
"organization": {
"name": "Glitch",
"username": "glitch",
"slug": "glitch",
"profile_image": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--rVDCwPJW--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_640,q_auto,w_640/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/organization/profile_image/609/d36daa95-5d60-4559-a0cd-f234d10ef61d.png",
"profile_image_90": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--S4GfcNfo--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,h_90,q_auto,w_90/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/organization/profile_image/609/d36daa95-5d60-4559-a0cd-f234d10ef61d.png"
},
"flare_tag": {
"name": "showdev",
"bg_color_hex": "#091b47",
"text_color_hex": "#b2ffe1"
}
}
You can see all the steps on my documentation
Posted on April 21, 2020
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