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 agent_sessions Trends API
version: 1.0.0
description: "Access Forem articles, users and other resources via API.\n For a real-world example of Forem in action, check out [DEV](https://www.dev.to).\n All endpoints can be accessed with the 'api-key' header and a accept header, but\n some of them are accessible publicly without authentication.\n\n Dates and date times, unless otherwise specified, must be in\n the [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format."
servers:
- url: https://dev.to/api
description: Production server
security:
- api-key: []
tags:
- name: trends
paths:
/api/trends:
get:
summary: Trends
security: []
tags:
- trends
description: 'This endpoint allows the client to retrieve a list of active trends.
Trends represent topics or themes that are currently hot and heavily discussed in the community.
It will return trends ordered by score and recency.
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:
example:
- type_of: trend
id: 269
name: Ruby 3.4 release
slug: ruby-3-4-release
description: Discussions around the latest Ruby 3.4 features
key_questions: []
score: 15.5
articles_count: 1
cover_image: null
first_observed_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
last_observed_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
created_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
updated_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Trend'
/api/trends/{id_or_slug}:
get:
summary: A Trend
security: []
tags:
- trends
description: This endpoint allows the client to retrieve details of a single trend using either its numeric ID or unique slug.
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:
example:
type_of: trend
id: 270
name: Ruby 3.4 release
slug: ruby-3-4-release
description: Discussions around the latest Ruby 3.4 features
key_questions: []
score: 15.5
articles_count: 1
cover_image: null
first_observed_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
last_observed_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
created_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
updated_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
schema:
type: object
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Trend'
'404':
description: Trend Not Found
content:
application/json:
example:
error: not found
status: 404
/api/trends/{trend_id_or_slug}/articles:
get:
summary: Articles in a Trend
security: []
tags:
- trends
description: 'This endpoint allows the client to retrieve a list of published articles belonging to a trend.
Articles will be ordered by their proximity (distance) to the trend''s centroid, then by article score.
It 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:
example:
- type_of: article
id: 2267
title: Ruby 3.4 features deep dive
description: Put a bird on it fashion axe salvia pickled selfies pinterest. Ennui heirloom swag vhs yuccie food...
readable_publish_date: May 28
slug: ruby-34-features-deep-dive-2a22
path: /username218/ruby-34-features-deep-dive-2a22
url: http://forem.test/username218/ruby-34-features-deep-dive-2a22
comments_count: 0
public_reactions_count: 0
collection_id: null
published_timestamp: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
language: en
subforem_id: null
positive_reactions_count: 0
cover_image: http://forem.test/assets/4-dcfcc4d8dd259bc0751c2de24b1cf244b181c789934368ca1cb471f0944b695d.png
social_image: http://forem.test/assets/4-dcfcc4d8dd259bc0751c2de24b1cf244b181c789934368ca1cb471f0944b695d.png
canonical_url: http://forem.test/username218/ruby-34-features-deep-dive-2a22
created_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
edited_at: null
crossposted_at: null
published_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
last_comment_at: '2026-05-28T18:45:30Z'
reading_time_minutes: 1
tag_list:
- javascript
- html
- discuss
tags: javascript, html, discuss
user:
name: Jennie "Trenton" \:/ Mitchell
username: username218
twitter_username: twitter218
github_username: github218
user_id: 4266
website_url: null
profile_image: /uploads/user/profile_image/4266/633ee7e9-0ce0-4b3b-ba3a-011971fde181.jpeg
profile_image_90: /uploads/user/profile_image/4266/633ee7e9-0ce0-4b3b-ba3a-011971fde181.jpeg
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ArticleIndex'
'404':
description: Trend Not Found
content:
application/json:
example:
error: not found
status: 404
components:
schemas:
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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 "