# Scout DX Dev.to Search

> Scout DX Dev.to Search is a paid API for AI agents from scout-dx.hugen.tokyo, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status down (last checked 2026-10-12).

Searches and surfaces top Dev.to articles and community signals based on a query, sort order, and result count.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://scout-dx.hugen.tokyo/scout/devto?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Success rate: 0% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 5.0 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scout-dx-hugen-tokyo-352fe31e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_IobM1_h_qRlIRzyPxWMEc

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability scout-dx-hugen-tokyo-352fe31e
```

Example prompt: Find me the top 10 Dev.to articles about TypeScript, sorted by most reactions, so I can see what the developer community finds most valuable right now.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover what the developer community on Dev.to is writing about a specific topic, especially when you want ranked/sorted results by popularity or recency. Prefer this over general web search when you specifically want developer-authored blog content with community engagement metrics like reactions and comments.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query matches no Dev.to content
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 credentials are invalid
- Malformed or missing query parameter returns error
- Sort parameter with unsupported value may return default sort or error
- Dev.to API downtime causing upstream failures

## How this service works

Scans Dev.to to surface relevant content and signals from the community.

## Output

Returns a list of Dev.to articles matching the query, each with article ID, URL, title, author name and username, publication date, tags, reaction count, comment count, reading time in minutes, and a short description snippet.

## Example request

```json
{
 "q": "javascript",
 "sort": "relevance",
 "per_page": 10
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scout-dx-hugen-tokyo-352fe31e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from scout-dx.hugen.tokyo](https://www.zero.xyz/host/scout-dx.hugen.tokyo/llms.txt)