dev-to ProfileImages API

Endpoints for retrieving profile images of users and organizations.

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GET /profile_images/{username} A Users or organizations profile image #

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OpenAPI Specification

dev-to-profileimages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Dev.to Forem Articles Profile Images API
  description: The Dev.to Forem API (v1) is a RESTful API that provides programmatic access to the Dev.to developer community platform, which is built on the open-source Forem framework. The API enables developers to create, read, update, and manage articles, comments, users, organizations, tags, followers, listings, podcast episodes, pages, display ads, reactions, reading lists, and webhooks. It uses API key authentication, requires an accept header of application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json, and returns JSON responses. Unauthenticated endpoints are CORS-enabled, making it possible to fetch public content directly from browser-based applications.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Forem Support
    url: https://forem.com
  termsOfService: https://dev.to/terms
servers:
- url: https://dev.to/api
  description: Dev.to Production Server
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: ProfileImages
  description: Endpoints for retrieving profile images of users and organizations.
paths:
  /profile_images/{username}:
    get:
      operationId: getProfileImage
      summary: A Users or organizations profile image
      description: Retrieves the profile image URL for a user or organization by username.
      tags:
      - ProfileImages
      security: []
      parameters:
      - name: username
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The username of the user or organization.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Profile image URLs
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProfileImage'
        '404':
          description: User or organization not found
components:
  schemas:
    ProfileImage:
      type: object
      description: Profile image URLs for a user or organization.
      properties:
        type_of:
          type: string
          description: The type of resource (user or organization).
        image_of:
          type: string
          description: The entity type the image belongs to.
        profile_image:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: The URL of the standard profile image.
        profile_image_90:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: The URL of the 90px profile image.
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: api-key
      description: API key obtained from the DEV.to settings page. Pass in the api-key header for authenticated requests.
externalDocs:
  description: Forem API V1 Documentation
  url: https://developers.forem.com/api/v1