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name: devto-publish description: Publish articles to Dev.to. Use this skill when the article is ready and user wants to publish.

Dev.to Publisher

This skill publishes articles to Dev.to using their official API.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• Article content is finalized
• Featured image has been generated
• Ready to publish the completed article

Prerequisites

The DEVTO_API_KEY environment variable must be set with your Dev.to API key.

To get your API key:

1. Go to https://dev.to/settings/extensions
2. Scroll to "DEV Community API Keys"
3. Enter a description and click "Generate API Key"
4. Copy the key

How to Use

Copy/home/user/.claude/skills/devto-publish/scripts/devto-publish.sh <article_file> [--title "Title"] [--tags "tag1,tag2,tag3"] [--published true|false] [--image url]

Parameters

Standard Usage for Content Farm Workflow

Copy/home/user/.claude/skills/devto-publish/scripts/devto-publish.sh \
  /home/user/workspace/output/article.md \
  --tags "ai,technology,automation" \
  --published true

With Cover Image

Use the fal.ai image URL from the image-gen skill response:

Copy/home/user/.claude/skills/devto-publish/scripts/devto-publish.sh \
  /home/user/workspace/output/article.md \
  --tags "ai,tech,automation" \
  --image "https://storage.googleapis.com/fal-flux/..." \
  --published true

Output Preparation

Before publishing, ensure these files exist in /home/user/workspace/output/:

article.md

The complete article in Markdown format.

featured.png

The generated featured image (copied from /tmp/images/).

metadata.json

SEO metadata in this format:

Copy{
  "title": "Your SEO-optimized title",
  "description": "Meta description (150-160 characters)",
  "keywords": ["keyword1", "keyword2", "keyword3"],
  "sources": [
    "https://source1.com/article",
    "https://source2.com/article"
  ],
  "word_count": 1200,
  "generated_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
}

Response

Returns the Dev.to article URL on success.

Response saved to /tmp/devto/publish_response.json:

Copy{
  "id": 123456,
  "title": "Article Title",
  "url": "https://dev.to/username/article-slug",
  "published": true
}

Always report the url back to the user after successful publishing.

Guidelines

1. Always use --published true to publish publicly (content farm workflow default)
2. Dev.to supports up to 4 tags per post
3. Tags should be lowercase, no spaces
4. Cover images must be URLs (use the fal.ai URL from image-gen response)
5. Markdown is fully supported including code blocks with syntax highlighting
6. Choose tags that match the article topic (e.g., "ai", "technology", "programming", "automation")