Dev.to Publisher

This skill publishes articles to Dev.to using their official API.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• Article content is finalized
• Featured image has been generated
• Ready to publish the completed article

Prerequisites

The DEVTO_API_KEY environment variable must be set with your Dev.to API key.

To get your API key:

1. Go to https://dev.to/settings/extensions
2. Scroll to "DEV Community API Keys"
3. Enter a description and click "Generate API Key"
4. Copy the key

How to Use

/home/user/.claude/skills/devto-publish/scripts/devto-publish.sh <article_file> [--title "Title"] [--tags "tag1,tag2,tag3"] [--published true|false] [--image url]

Parameters

Standard Usage for Content Farm Workflow

/home/user/.claude/skills/devto-publish/scripts/devto-publish.sh \
  /home/user/workspace/output/article.md \
  --tags "ai,technology,automation" \
  --published true

With Cover Image

Use the fal.ai image URL from the image-gen skill response:

/home/user/.claude/skills/devto-publish/scripts/devto-publish.sh \
  /home/user/workspace/output/article.md \
  --tags "ai,tech,automation" \
  --image "https://storage.googleapis.com/fal-flux/..." \
  --published true

Output Preparation

Before publishing, ensure these files exist in /home/user/workspace/output/:

article.md

The complete article in Markdown format.

featured.png

The generated featured image (copied from /tmp/images/).

metadata.json

SEO metadata in this format:

{
  "title": "Your SEO-optimized title",
  "description": "Meta description (150-160 characters)",
  "keywords": ["keyword1", "keyword2", "keyword3"],
  "sources": [
    "https://source1.com/article",
    "https://source2.com/article"
  ],
  "word_count": 1200,
  "generated_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
}

Response

Returns the Dev.to article URL on success.

Response saved to /tmp/devto/publish_response.json:

{
  "id": 123456,
  "title": "Article Title",
  "url": "https://dev.to/username/article-slug",
  "published": true
}

Always report the url back to the user after successful publishing.

Guidelines

1. Always use --published true to publish publicly (content farm workflow default)
2. Dev.to supports up to 4 tags per post
3. Tags should be lowercase, no spaces
4. Cover images must be URLs (use the fal.ai URL from image-gen response)
5. Markdown is fully supported including code blocks with syntax highlighting
6. Choose tags that match the article topic (e.g., "ai", "technology", "programming", "automation")