/** * DEV.to article reader. * * Public API: https://dev.to/api/articles/ * Returns the full article including `body_markdown` (and `body_html`). * * The DEV.to API does not currently expose article comments — this reader * therefore emits one row with the article body. If/when comments become * available we can extend to a POST + L0/L1 shape like `hackernews read`. */ import { cli, Strategy } from '@jackwener/opencli/registry'; import { ArgumentError, CommandExecutionError, EmptyResultError } from '@jackwener/opencli/errors'; const DEVTO_ARTICLE_BASE = 'https://dev.to/api/articles'; async function fetchArticle(id) { let res; try { res = await fetch(`${DEVTO_ARTICLE_BASE}/${id}`); } catch (error) { const detail = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error); throw new CommandExecutionError(`DEV.to API request failed for article ${id}`, detail); } if (res.status === 404) { throw new EmptyResultError(`devto/${id}`, 'Article not found'); } if (!res.ok) { throw new CommandExecutionError(`DEV.to API HTTP ${res.status} for article ${id}`, 'Check the article id'); } try { return await res.json(); } catch { throw new CommandExecutionError(`DEV.to API returned invalid JSON for article ${id}`, 'Retry later or open the article URL directly'); } } function requireMinInt(value, min, label) { const number = typeof value === 'number' ? value : Number(value); if (!Number.isInteger(number) || number < min) { throw new ArgumentError(`${label} must be an integer >= ${min}`); } return number; } function requireArticleBody(article, id) { if (typeof article.body_markdown === 'string' && article.body_markdown.trim()) { return article.body_markdown; } throw new CommandExecutionError( `DEV.to article ${id} did not include body_markdown`, 'DEV.to API response shape may have changed. Open the article URL directly or retry later.', ); } cli({ site: 'devto', name: 'read', access: 'read', description: 'Read a DEV.to article body by id', domain: 'dev.to', strategy: Strategy.PUBLIC, browser: false, args: [ { name: 'id', required: true, positional: true, help: 'DEV.to article id (numeric, e.g. 3605688)' }, { name: 'max-length', type: 'int', default: 20000, help: 'Max characters of body to return (min 100)' }, ], columns: ['id', 'title', 'author', 'reactions', 'reading_time', 'tags', 'published_at', 'body', 'url'], func: async (args) => { const id = String(args.id || '').trim(); if (!/^\d+$/.test(id)) { throw new ArgumentError(`Invalid DEV.to article id: ${args.id}`, 'Pass a numeric id like 3605688'); } const maxLength = requireMinInt(args['max-length'] ?? 20000, 100, 'devto read --max-length'); const article = await fetchArticle(id); if (!article || !article.id) { throw new EmptyResultError(`devto/${id}`, 'Article not found'); } const body = requireArticleBody(article, id); const truncated = body.length > maxLength ? body.slice(0, maxLength) + '\n\n... [truncated]' : body; // The single-article endpoint returns `tag_list` as a comma-separated // string and `tags` as an array — the opposite of the listing endpoints. // Normalize either shape into a single comma-separated string. const tagsRaw = article.tag_list ?? article.tags ?? ''; const tags = Array.isArray(tagsRaw) ? tagsRaw.join(', ') : String(tagsRaw); return [{ id: article.id, title: article.title || '', author: article.user?.username || '[deleted]', reactions: article.public_reactions_count ?? 0, reading_time: article.reading_time_minutes ?? 0, tags, published_at: article.published_at || '', body: truncated, url: article.url || '', }]; }, });