Dev.to Has a Free API — Analyze Your Article Performance in 20 Lines of Python

You're Writing Blind If you're publishing on Dev.to, you probably check your dashboard occasionally. But do you actually know: Which tags get you the most views? What day of the week gets the most engagement? Which article format performs best? Dev.to has a free API that gives you all this data. Let me show you. Setup Get your API key: Settings → Extensions → DEV Community API Keys → Generate. 1. Your Top Articles import requests API_KEY = " your-api-key " headers = { " api-key " : API_KEY } # Get your articles (up to 1000) articles = [] for page in range ( 1 , 11 ): batch = requests . get ( f " https://dev.to/api/articles/me?per_page=100&page= { page } " , headers = headers ). json () if not batch : break articles . extend ( batch ) print ( f " Total articles: { len ( articles ) } " ) # Sort by views top = sorted ( articles , key = lambda a : a . get ( " page_views_count " , 0 ), reverse = True ) print ( " \n 📊 Top 10 Articles: " ) for i , a in enumerate ( top [: 10 ], 1 ): views = a