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Dev.to Webhooks API

The Dev.to Webhooks API allows developers to subscribe to real-time notifications for events occurring on the Dev.to platform. By creating webhook subscriptions, applications can receive HTTP callbacks when specific events happen, such as new articles being published. This enables event-driven integrations and automation workflows that respond immediately to activity on the platform without the need to continuously poll the REST API for changes.

Dev.to Webhooks API is one of 15 APIs that dev-to publishes on the APIs.io network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Automation, Event, Notification, and Webhook. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an AsyncAPI specification.

This event API exposes 1 operation across 1 channel, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by AsyncAPI 2.6.0, at version 1.0.0.

The API connects through a single server, dev.to (https).

1 operations 1 channels 6 schemas

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
AsyncAPI 2.6.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://dev.to/api
Resource Areas
1

Channels & Operations 1

Across 1 channel, the API surfaces 1 operation. Each is listed below with its action, channel, parameters, and response codes.

Channels 1
PUB
/webhook
Receive article lifecycle events
receiveArticleEvent body

Messages & Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data carried by its messages. The most detailed are ArticleEventPayload (23 properties), WebhookUser (7 properties), WebhookOrganization (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ArticleCreated
message
Triggered when a new article is published on the platform.
ArticleUpdated
message
Triggered when an existing published article is updated.
ArticleDestroyed
message
Triggered when a published article is deleted from the platform.
ArticleEventPayload
object
The webhook event payload sent by Dev.to when an article lifecycle event occurs. Contains the full article data along with author and organization information.
23 properties
WebhookUser
object
The author of the article included in webhook event payloads.
7 properties
WebhookOrganization
object
The organization the article was published under, if applicable. May be null if the article was not published under an organization.
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable AsyncAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

dev-to-webhooks-asyncapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs dev-to publishes across the network.

dev-to Articles API
dev-to Comments API
dev-to DisplayAds API
dev-to FollowedTags API
dev-to Followers API
dev-to Organizations API
dev-to Pages API
dev-to PodcastEpisodes API
dev-to ProfileImages API
dev-to Reactions API
dev-to ReadingList API
dev-to Tags API
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