jackwener--opencli/docs/adapters/browser/devto.md

Dev.to

Mode: 🌐 Public · Domain: dev.to

Fetch the latest and greatest developer articles from the DEV community without needing an API key.

Commands

Command	Description
opencli devto top	Top DEV.to articles of the day
opencli devto latest	Latest published articles across all tags (paginated)
opencli devto tag <tag>	Latest articles for a specific tag
opencli devto user <username>	Recent articles from a specific user
opencli devto read <id>	Read the body of a single article

Listing columns

top, latest, tag, and user all surface the same agent-native columns so the article id is round-trippable into devto read:

Column	Source	Notes
rank	local	1-indexed position in the result
id	item.id	Numeric article id, feed into devto read
title	item.title
author	item.user.username	(omitted for user since it's user-scoped)
reactions	item.public_reactions_count
comments	item.comments_count
reading_time	item.reading_time_minutes	Minutes
published_at	item.published_at	ISO 8601 timestamp
tags	item.tag_list	Comma-separated
url	item.url	Canonical article URL

read columns

devto read returns a single row with the article body. DEV.to's public API does not expose article comments, so this reader does not emit a comment tree.

Column	Source
id	article.id
title	article.title
author	article.user.username
reactions	article.public_reactions_count
reading_time	article.reading_time_minutes
tags	article.tag_list (joined)
published_at	article.published_at
body	article.body_markdown (truncated by --max-length)
url	article.url

Usage Examples

# Top articles today
opencli devto top --limit 5

# Latest published articles (newest first; supports --page for pagination)
opencli devto latest --limit 20
opencli devto latest --limit 20 --page 2

# Articles by tag (positional argument)
opencli devto tag javascript
opencli devto tag python --limit 20

# Articles by a specific author
opencli devto user ben
opencli devto user thepracticaldev --limit 5

# Read a single article body by id
opencli devto read 3605688
opencli devto read 3605688 --max-length 5000

# JSON output
opencli devto top -f json
opencli devto read 3605688 -f json

Prerequisites

• No browser required — uses the public DEV.to API