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Publish articles automatically on DEV

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This acts as a simple guideline for publishing your content to one of the most popular platforms. We can also learn some simple Python code from it.

Get to know DEV API

You can get more information by clicking here. In short, we need to have authentication way and API support for publishing content to Dev.to. In this post, we will use API_KEY for authentication. You can get API_KEY of dev.to from this https://dev.to/settings/account.

DEV API Key

Try to publish via API with Postman

• We need to use api_key header with value for authentication

api_key: {key_value}

• Request body sample

{
"article":
{
"title": "Hello, Donald 2!",
"published": false,
"body_markdown": "Hello DEV, test automate API. \n test \n ![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/dxwogjwgl7jm63gebz9v.jpg)",
"tags":
[
"test",
"api"
]
}
}

And here we go,

New Article is published to dev.to

Publish via Python — programmatically way

All we need to do is create the Python class object then parse it to JSON.

Remember we need to add the api_key header for authentication.

Run

python3 main.py

And the article is published.

Note:

Currently published is set as False, which means we only publish the draft. If you want to publish it right away, set it to True.

This is it.

Hope it helps