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Call the Forem API v1 (dev.to) with curl + jq. The user's API key is in $DEVTO_API_KEY; every call needs the headers api-key: $DEVTO_API_KEY and Accept: application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json. Base URL: https://dev.to/api.

Errors come back as JSON with an error / status field — show them verbatim. 401 means the API key is invalid → the user must re-connect the DEV connector.

Always start by confirming the key and learning the account:

curl -sS -H "api-key: $DEVTO_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json" \
  "https://dev.to/api/users/me" | jq '{username, name}'

Publish an article

Confirm with the user before publishing publicly. Default to a draft (published:false) unless they explicitly say publish/now.

TITLE="My title"
BODY_MD="$(cat article.md)"   # full Markdown body
jq -n --arg t "$TITLE" --arg b "$BODY_MD" \
  '{article:{title:$t, body_markdown:$b, published:false, tags:["ai","webdev"]}}' \
| curl -sS -X POST "https://dev.to/api/articles" \
    -H "api-key: $DEVTO_API_KEY" \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d @- \
| jq '{id, url, published}'

To publish a draft later (or edit), PUT /api/articles/{id} with the same shape (set published:true). Front-matter inside body_markdown (a --- block) can also carry title, tags, series, canonical_url, cover_image.

• Canonical URL: when cross-posting, set "canonical_url":"https://your-blog/original" so DEV points SEO back to the source — important for the article→video / cross-publishing flow.

List / inspect my articles

# My published + draft articles (paginated; per_page max 1000).
curl -sS -H "api-key: $DEVTO_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json" \
  "https://dev.to/api/articles/me/all?per_page=30" \
  | jq '.[] | {id, title, published, page_views_count, public_reactions_count, comments_count}'

# A single article's full content + stats.
curl -sS -H "api-key: $DEVTO_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json" \
  "https://dev.to/api/articles/ARTICLE_ID" | jq '{title, url, reactions: .public_reactions_count, views: .page_views_count}'

Gotchas

• Tags: max 4, lowercase, no spaces (e.g. webdev, machinelearning).
• Rate limit: article create/update is throttled (a few per 30s); space out bulk publishes or you'll get 429.
• body_markdown is the source of truth — if you put a --- front-matter block at the top, its fields override the JSON article fields.