Create Article
Create an article on DEV Community for the authenticated user, as a draft by default or published immediately. Markdown front matter takes precedence over equivalent supplied article fields, including publication status.
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DEV Community (dev.to) is a community of software developers where you can publish articles, engage with others, and build your online presence.
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Get Article By ID
Returns a single published article by its ID, including full body content. Use this action when you know the unique ID of the article you want to retrieve. The response includes complete article details such as title, full HTML and markdown body content, author information, reaction counts, comments count, and reading time.
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Get Article By Path
Returns a single published article by username and slug path. Use this action when you know the username of the author and the article's slug. The response includes full article details including title, content, author info, reactions count, comments count, and reading time.
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Get Comment by ID
Returns a single comment and its descendants (replies) by comment ID. Use this action when you need to retrieve a specific comment along with all its replies from DEV Community. The response includes the comment content, author information, and nested child comments. Note: The comment ID is the id_code field (e.g., "1", "32k5a"), not the numeric user_id.
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Get Current User
Tool to get the currently authenticated user's profile information. Use when you need to retrieve the profile of the user associated with the provided API key. Returns user details including username, name, bio, location, and profile image.
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Get Listing
Returns a single classified listing by its ID. Use this action to retrieve detailed information about a specific listing on DEV Community, including the title, description, category, tags, and information about the user who posted it.
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Get Organization
Returns a single organization by its username. Use this action when you need to retrieve organization profile information from DEV Community. Returns organization details including name, summary, social links, and profile image.
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Get Profile Image
Returns the profile image URL for a user or organization by username. Use this action to retrieve the profile picture(s) for a specific user or organization on DEV Community. The API returns both the full-size image URL and a 90px thumbnail.
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Get user
Retrieves a DEV Community user profile by numeric user ID, including available username, name, bio, location, and profile image.
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List Articles
List published DEV Community articles with pagination and optional filters for tags, username, state, popularity period, or collection. Without filters, the API returns featured articles ordered by descending popularity.
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List Comments
Tool to list comments for a specified article or podcast episode on DEV Community. Use when you need to retrieve all comments for a particular article or podcast episode. Requires either a_id (article ID) or p_id (podcast episode ID) parameter.
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List DEVTO Reading List
Lists the authenticated user's DEV reading-list reactions with their associated articles, ordered by most recent reaction first. Requires an API key and supports pagination, with 30 items per page by default and a maximum of 100.
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List Followed Tags
Returns a list of tags followed by the authenticated user. Use this action to retrieve the tags that the currently authenticated user has followed on DEV.to. The response includes the tag ID, name, and points.
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List Followers
Tool to retrieve a list of users who follow the authenticated user. Supports pagination with 80 followers per page by default. Use when you need to see who is following the authenticated user's profile.
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List latest DEV Community articles
List published DEV Community articles in descending publication-date order with pagination. Results include article metadata, author information, tags and engagement metrics.
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List Listings
Returns a list of classified listings for jobs, mentors, products, etc. Use this action to browse available listings on DEV Community. Supports pagination and filtering by category to find specific types of listings (jobs, mentors, events, etc.).
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List Listings By Category
Returns a list of classified listings filtered by category. Use this action to browse listings on DEV Community for a specific category (jobs, mentors, products, events, etc.). The category is a required path parameter. Supports pagination via page and per_page parameters.
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List Organization Articles
Tool to list articles published by a specific organization on DEV.to. Use when you need to retrieve all articles published by an organization. The results are paginated and can be filtered by page number and items per page.
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List organization users on DEV.to
Tool to list users belonging to a specified organization on DEV.to. Use when you need to retrieve all members/users of a particular organization. Returns a list of user objects with their profile information including username, name, profile image, and social links.
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List podcast episodes on DEV.to
Lists active DEV.to podcast episodes belonging to published podcasts, optionally filtered by podcast username. Results are paginated and ordered by descending publication date.
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List Tags
Returns a list of tags with their names, background colors, and text colors. Use this action to retrieve available tags from DEV Community for filtering articles or discovering topics. Supports pagination to handle large numbers of tags.
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List User All Articles
Tool to list all articles (both published and unpublished) for the authenticated user. Use when you need to retrieve all articles belonging to the authenticated user's account, including draft and unpublished articles.
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List User Articles
Tool to list published articles for the authenticated user. Use when you need to retrieve only the published articles belonging to the authenticated user's account. For unpublished/draft articles, use the List User All Articles action instead.
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List user's published articles
Returns a list of the authenticated user's published articles only. Use when you need to retrieve articles that the current user has published on DEV Community. Supports pagination via page and per_page parameters.
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List user's unpublished articles
Returns a list of the authenticated user's unpublished (draft) articles. Use when you need to retrieve draft articles that have not yet been published. Supports pagination via page and per_page parameters.
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List Videos
Lists published DEV Community articles that contain videos, ordered by descending popularity. Supports pagination via page and per_page parameters.
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Update Article
Update an existing DEV Community article's properties, including its content, tags and publication status. Article front matter takes precedence over equivalent supplied fields; updating those properties may require providing the full Markdown body with modified front matter.
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Update Listing
Update a DEV Community classified listing's title, body, category or tags, or bump, publish or unpublish it. An action takes priority over other supplied fields; bumping charges the user or organization, and ordinary edits are subject to listing update restrictions.
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How the DEV Community integration works
The DEV Community integration connects your Dench AI CRM directly to DEV Community, so agents can read and act on your DEV Community data as part of everyday work — answering questions in chat, keeping your CRM in sync, and running automations without anyone copying data between tools.
28 actions are available for agents to invoke on your behalf. Every call runs through DEV Community's own authorization, scoped to the account you connect.
Set up DEV Community in Dench
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Sign in to your Dench workspace and open Integrations.
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Find DEV Community and click Connect — you'll authorize access through DEV Community's own sign-in flow. No API keys or code required.
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Ask an agent to use DEV Community in chat, or call it from an automation.
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Manage or disconnect the connection any time from workspace settings.
Frequently asked questions
How does the DEV Community integration work with Dench?
The Dench DEV Community integration connects your AI CRM to DEV Community, so AI agents can work with your DEV Community data as part of chats, automations, and CRM workflows. You connect your account once, and every agent in your workspace can use it — governed by your workspace permissions.
What actions can AI agents perform with DEV Community via Dench?
The DEV Community integration currently exposes 28 actions, including Create Article, Get Article By ID, Get Article By Path, Get Comment by ID, Get Current User, and Get Listing. Agents invoke them on your behalf from chat or from automations.
Do I need to write code to connect DEV Community to Dench?
No. You connect DEV Community from your Dench workspace using DEV Community's own sign-in and authorization flow — no API keys to copy, no glue code to maintain.
Is the DEV Community integration secure?
Connections are authorized through DEV Community's own authentication flow, and Dench stores only the authorization needed to act on your behalf. You can review and disconnect the DEV Community connection from your workspace settings at any time.