DEV Community Trends API
The trends API from DEV Community — 3 operation(s) for trends.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Forem API V1 Trends API
version: 1.0.0
description: Access Forem articles, users and other resources via API.
servers:
- url: https://dev.to
description: Production server
security:
- api-key: []
- bearer_auth: []
tags:
- name: Trends
paths:
/api/trends:
get:
summary: Trends
security: []
tags:
- Trends
description: 'Retrieve a list of active trends.
### Trends Overview & Score Calculation:
- Trends represent hot topics or semantic themes currently being heavily discussed in the community.
- They are computed by clustering semantic concept embeddings of recently published articles.
- The `score` reflects the volume and engagement (views, comments, reactions) of articles associated with the trend.
- Returned trends are ordered by score and recency.
- Publicly accessible without authentication.
It supports pagination, each page will contain 10 trends by default.'
operationId: getTrends
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/pageParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/perPageParam10to1000'
responses:
'200':
description: A List of Trends
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Trend'
/api/trends/{id_or_slug}:
get:
summary: A Trend
security: []
tags:
- Trends
description: 'Retrieve details of a single trend using either its numeric ID or unique slug.
### Usage Guidance:
- Useful for loading details of a trending topic (description, score, and slug details) to render header sections on trending tag or topic pages.'
operationId: getTrend
parameters:
- name: id_or_slug
in: path
required: true
description: The ID or slug of the trend to retrieve.
example: ruby-3-4-release
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: A Trend
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Trend'
'404':
description: Trend Not Found
/api/trends/{trend_id_or_slug}/articles:
get:
summary: Articles in a Trend
security: []
tags:
- Trends
description: 'Retrieve a list of published articles belonging to a trend.
### Article Ordering & Proximity:
- Articles are mapped to trends based on their embedding distance to the trend''s centroid.
- Returned articles are ordered by proximity/similarity (distance) first (most relevant posts first), and then by overall article engagement score.
- Supports pagination, each page will contain 10 articles by default.'
operationId: getTrendArticles
parameters:
- name: trend_id_or_slug
in: path
required: true
description: The ID or slug of the trend to retrieve articles for.
example: ruby-3-4-release
schema:
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/pageParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/perPageParam10to1000'
responses:
'200':
description: A List of Articles in the Trend
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleIndex'
'404':
description: Trend Not Found
components:
schemas:
SharedOrganization:
description: The organization the resource belongs to
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
username:
type: string
slug:
type: string
profile_image:
description: Profile image (640x640)
type: string
format: url
profile_image_90:
description: Profile image (90x90)
type: string
format: url
ArticleIndex:
description: Representation of an article or post returned in a list
type: object
properties:
type_of:
type: string
id:
type: integer
format: int32
title:
type: string
description:
type: string
cover_image:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: url
readable_publish_date:
type: string
social_image:
type: string
format: url
tag_list:
type: array
items:
type: string
tags:
type: string
slug:
type: string
path:
type: string
format: path
url:
type: string
format: url
canonical_url:
type: string
format: url
positive_reactions_count:
type: integer
format: int32
public_reactions_count:
type: integer
format: int32
created_at:
type: string
format: date-time
edited_at:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: date-time
crossposted_at:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: date-time
published_at:
type: string
format: date-time
last_comment_at:
type: string
format: date-time
published_timestamp:
description: Crossposting or published date time
type: string
format: date-time
reading_time_minutes:
description: Reading time, in minutes
type: integer
format: int32
ai_disclosure_level:
type: string
enum:
- not_disclosed
- no_ai
- some_ai
- fully_autonomous
description: Level of AI tooling usage disclosure
ai_disclosure_label:
type: string
description: Human-readable label of AI disclosure
user:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SharedUser'
flare_tag:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleFlareTag'
organization:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SharedOrganization'
required:
- type_of
- id
- title
- description
- cover_image
- readable_publish_date
- social_image
- tag_list
- tags
- slug
- path
- url
- canonical_url
- comments_count
- positive_reactions_count
- public_reactions_count
- created_at
- edited_at
- crossposted_at
- published_at
- last_comment_at
- published_timestamp
- user
- reading_time_minutes
SharedUser:
description: The resource creator
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
username:
type: string
twitter_username:
type:
- string
- 'null'
github_username:
type:
- string
- 'null'
website_url:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: url
profile_image:
description: Profile image (640x640)
type: string
profile_image_90:
description: Profile image (90x90)
type: string
ArticleFlareTag:
description: Flare tag of the article
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
bg_color_hex:
description: Background color (hexadecimal)
type:
- string
- 'null'
text_color_hex:
description: Text color (hexadecimal)
type:
- string
- 'null'
Trend:
description: Representation of a trend
type: object
properties:
type_of:
type: string
id:
type: integer
format: int64
name:
type: string
slug:
type: string
description:
type:
- string
- 'null'
key_questions:
type: array
items:
type: string
score:
type: number
format: float
articles_count:
type: integer
format: int32
cover_image:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: url
first_observed_at:
type: string
format: date-time
last_observed_at:
type: string
format: date-time
created_at:
type: string
format: date-time
updated_at:
type: string
format: date-time
required:
- type_of
- id
- name
- slug
- key_questions
- score
- articles_count
- first_observed_at
- last_observed_at
- created_at
- updated_at
parameters:
pageParam:
in: query
name: page
required: false
description: Pagination page
schema:
type: integer
format: int32
minimum: 1
default: 1
perPageParam10to1000:
in: query
name: per_page
required: false
description: Page size (the number of items to return per page). The default maximum value can be overridden by "API_PER_PAGE_MAX" environment variable.
schema:
type: integer
format: int32
minimum: 1
maximum: 1000
default: 10
securitySchemes:
api-key:
type: apiKey
name: api-key
in: header
description: "API Key authentication.\n\nAuthentication for some endpoints, like write operations on the\nArticles API require a DEV API key.\n\nAll authenticated endpoints are CORS disabled, the API key is intended for non-browser scripts.\n\n### Getting an API key\n\nTo obtain one, please follow these steps:\n\n - visit https://dev.to/settings/extensions\n - in the \"DEV API Keys\" section create a new key by adding a\n description and clicking on \"Generate API Key\"\n\n \n\n - You'll see the newly generated key in the same view\n "
bearer_auth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: JWT
description: Short-lived RS256 RFC 9068 access token issued by the configured delegation service and verified against its configured JWKS. The issuer authorizes the client and requested operation before minting the token; Forem validates the token and resolves its subject and owner to a local user. An invalid token returns 401; an unavailable trust dependency with no usable cached key returns 503.