DEV Community API

curl 'https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1'

const res = await fetch("https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://dev.to/api/articles?per_page=1", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

[
  {
    "type_of": "article",
    "id": 4390215,
    "title": "It's always Doom https://ood.dev/posts/doom/",
    "description": "...",
    "readable_publish_date": "Aug 13",
    "slug": "its-always-doom-httpsooddevpostsdoom-4fpi",
    "path": "/ben/its-always-doom-httpsooddevpostsdoom-4fpi",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ben/its-always-doom-httpsooddevpostsdoom-4fpi",
    "comments_count": 0,
    "public_reactions_count": 4,
    "collection_id": null,
    "published_timestamp": "2026-08-13T20:04:27Z",
    "language": "en",
    "subforem_id": 1,
    "ai_disclosure_level": "not_disclosed",
    "ai_disclosure_label": "Not Disclosed",
    "positive_reactions_count": 4,
    "cover_image": null,
    "social_image": "https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fpkholdt4jp2vza6zzqvu.png",
    "canonical_url": "https://dev.to/ben/its-always-doom-httpsooddevpostsdoom-4fpi",
    "created_at": "2026-08-13T20:04:27Z",
    "edited_at": null,
    "crossposted_at": null,
    "published_at": "2026-08-13T20:04:27Z",
    "last_comment_at": "2026-08-13T20:04:27Z",
    "reading_time_minutes": 1,
    "tag_list": [
      "gamedev",
      "programming",
      "software"
    ],
    "tags": "gamedev, programming, software",
    "user": {
      "name": "Ben Halpern",
      "username": "ben",
      "twitter_username": "bendhalpern",
      "github_username": "benhalpern",
      "user_id": 1,
      "website_url": "http://benhalpern.com",
      "profile_image": "https://media2.de