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An AI teammate for DEV Community.

Connect DEV Community and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 28 DEV Community actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about DEV Community
  • What broke in DEV Community overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a DEV Community issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's DEV Community activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in DEV Community needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in DEV Community

28 DEV Community actions, picked for what you ask.

About DEV Community: DEV Community (dev.to) is a community of software developers where you can publish articles, engage with others, and build your online presence.

Reads

25 in all · always allowed
  • Get user
    Get a single user by their ID or username. Use when you need to retrieve user profile information…
  • Get Current User
    Get the currently authenticated user's profile information.
  • Get Organization
    Returns a single organization by its username. Use this action when you need to retrieve…
  • List Tags
    Returns a list of tags with their names, background colors, and text colors.
  • Get Listing
    Returns a single classified listing by its ID. Use this action to retrieve detailed information…
  • List Videos
    Retrieve a list of articles that contain videos. Use when you need to browse video content on DEV…
  • List Articles
    Returns a list of published articles, optionally filtered by tags, username, state, or top…
  • List Comments
    List comments for a specified article or podcast episode on DEV Community.
  • List Listings
    Returns a list of classified listings for jobs, mentors, products, etc.
  • List Followers
    Retrieve a list of users who follow the authenticated user.
  • Get Article By ID
    Returns a single published article by its ID, including full body content.
  • Get Comment by ID
    Returns a single comment and its descendants (replies) by comment ID.
  • Get Profile Image
    Returns the profile image URL for a user or organization by username.
  • List Followed Tags
    Returns a list of tags followed by the authenticated user.
  • List User Articles
    List published articles for the authenticated user. Use when you need to retrieve only the…
  • Get Article By Path
    Returns a single published article by username and slug path.
  • List User All Articles
    List all articles (both published and unpublished) for the authenticated user.

Changes

3 in all · off when DEV Community is read-only
  • Create Article
    Create a new article on DEV Community. Use this action to create a new article on behalf of the…
  • Update Article
    Update an existing article on DEV Community. Only the article owner can update it.
  • Update Listing
    Updates an existing classified listing on DEV Community. Use this action to modify a listing's…

Showing 20 of 28. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect DEV Community

    Open Connections, find DEV Community and paste an API key from your DEV Community account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share DEV Community with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a DEV Community job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

DEV Community, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

DEV Community and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with DEV Community?

Yes. DEV Community is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect DEV Community?

Open Connections, find DEV Community and paste an API key from your DEV Community account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in DEV Community?

28 actions: 25 that read from DEV Community and 3 that change things in it, for example get user, get current user, get organization. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in DEV Community?

Yes. In Connections, set DEV Community to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about DEV Community from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run DEV Community jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my DEV Community data safe?

Your DEV Community login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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