How to publish posts via the dev.to API

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0800

Every time I copied a post into the dev.to editor, added tags and cleaned up the formatting, I’d wonder whether there was a way to automate it. If you have the same question, this article is for you.

The answer: the dev.to API.

In this post I’ll show you two ways to use it. First a curl command, so you’ll see the exact request the API expects. Then a Python script that automates it. I’ll also cover the one thing that trips people up: images.

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How to publish posts via the dev.to API