Skills blog-publisher-lite

Publish markdown articles to Dev.to via their REST API. Use this skill whenever the user wants to publish a blog post or article to Dev.to.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/apex-stack-ai/blog-cross-publisher-lite" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-blog-publisher-lite && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/apex-stack-ai/blog-cross-publisher-lite/SKILL.md

source content

Blog Publisher Lite

Publish markdown articles to Dev.to directly from a markdown file using their REST API.

Want cross-posting to Medium and Hashnode too? Upgrade to Blog Cross-Publisher (Full)

What You Need

A Dev.to API key. Get one at https://dev.to/settings/extensions

Article Format

Write your article in standard markdown. The skill extracts the title from the first

# heading

, tags from the

*Tags:*

line, and everything after

---

becomes the body.

Publishing

python scripts/publish_devto.py article.md --api-key YOUR_API_KEY --publish

Flag	What It Does
`--publish`	Publish immediately (omit for draft)
`--tags "seo,webdev"`	Override tags from the file

API Details

POST https://dev.to/api/articles with api-key header and JSON body. Max 4 tags, lowercase.

Troubleshooting

401: API key invalid. Generate new one at dev.to/settings/extensions
422: Check title present, tags <= 4, valid body_markdown
429: Rate limited. Wait 30 seconds.

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