Automate Dev.to with Grok Bot

Publish developer articles to Dev.to, post under organizations, add cover images and canonical URLs, and tag your content — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide Marketplace

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Publish to Dev.to in Seconds

Grok Bot

# In any Bot chat, add the Postiz plugin
/add-plugin postiz

# Store POSTIZ_API_KEY as a Bot secret when prompted.
# Your Bot can now run Postiz on its cloud computer:

# Find your Dev.to integration
postiz integrations:list

# Publish an article to Dev.to
postiz posts:create \
  -c "# My Article\n\nContent here..." \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"title":"Building with Postiz","tags":[{"value":"opensource","label":"Open Source"}]}' \
  -i "devto-id"

Dev.to-Specific Features

👨‍💻

Developer Articles

Publish technical articles with full Markdown support including code blocks, syntax highlighting, and embedded content.

🏢

Organization Posting

Publish articles under your Dev.to organization. Share content on behalf of your team or company with a single setting.

🖼

Cover Images

Upload and attach eye-catching cover images to your articles. Stand out in the Dev.to feed with visual content.

🔗

Canonical URLs

Set canonical URLs to link back to your original content. Perfect for cross-posting from your personal blog without SEO penalties.

🏷

Smart Tagging

Add up to 4 tags per article to reach the right developer audience. Tags drive discoverability on the Dev.to platform.

📅

Scheduled Publishing

Schedule articles for future publication with precise timestamps. Plan your developer content calendar ahead of time.

How It Works

Find Your Dev.to Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Dev.to integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Dev.to
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="devto")'

# Get Dev.to settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <devto-id>

Prepare Your Content

Write your article in Markdown. Dev.to supports rich formatting including headers, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, and liquid tags.

Upload

# Upload a cover image (optional)
RESULT=$(postiz upload cover.png)
IMAGE_PATH=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.path')
IMAGE_ID=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.id')

echo "Cover: $IMAGE_PATH"
# https://uploads.postiz.com/cover.png

Publish Your Article

Create a post with your article content, title, cover image, tags, and optional organization and canonical URL settings.

Publish

postiz posts:create \
  -c "# Building with Postiz

Automate your social media workflow
with the Postiz CLI...

```bash
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent
```" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Building with Postiz",
    "main_image": {
      "id": "img-id",
      "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/cover.png"
    },
    "canonical": "https://myblog.com/postiz",
    "organization": "org-id",
    "tags": [
      {"value": "opensource", "label": "Open Source"},
      {"value": "webdev", "label": "Web Dev"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "devto-id"

Dev.to Settings Reference

Every Dev.to post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "devto"
`title`	string	Yes	Article title (min 2 characters)
`main_image`	object	No	Cover image: {id: string, path: string}
`canonical`	string	No	Original URL for canonical link
`organization`	string	No	Organization ID to publish under
`tags`	array	No	Up to 4 tags: [{value: string, label: string}]

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Dev.to publishing scenarios.

Simple Developer Article

settings.json

{
  "title": "10 TypeScript Tips You Need to Know",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "typescript", "label": "TypeScript"},
    {"value": "javascript", "label": "JavaScript"},
    {"value": "webdev", "label": "Web Dev"},
    {"value": "programming", "label": "Programming"}
  ]
}

Organization Post with Cover Image

settings.json

{
  "title": "Introducing Our New Open Source Tool",
  "main_image": {
    "id": "img-abc123",
    "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/launch-cover.png"
  },
  "organization": "my-org-id",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "opensource", "label": "Open Source"},
    {"value": "showdev", "label": "Show Dev"},
    {"value": "productivity", "label": "Productivity"}
  ]
}

Cross-Posted Article with Canonical URL

settings.json

{
  "title": "How We Reduced Build Times by 80%",
  "canonical": "https://engineering.mycompany.com/build-times",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "devops", "label": "DevOps"},
    {"value": "ci", "label": "CI/CD"},
    {"value": "performance", "label": "Performance"}
  ]
}

Full-Featured Article

settings.json

{
  "title": "Building a Real-Time Dashboard",
  "main_image": {
    "id": "img-xyz789",
    "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/dashboard.png"
  },
  "canonical": "https://myblog.dev/real-time-dashboard",
  "organization": "my-team-id",
  "tags": [
    {"value": "react", "label": "React"},
    {"value": "websockets", "label": "WebSockets"},
    {"value": "tutorial", "label": "Tutorial"},
    {"value": "javascript", "label": "JavaScript"}
  ]
}

What is Grok Bot?

Grok Bot is the always-on AI teammate product from xAI and Cursor. You create named Bots, give each one a job, and they work 24/7 on their own persistent cloud computer — with a browser, a filesystem, and a terminal — pinging you only when they need approval.

Grok Bot is not the Grok chatbot. Grok is the assistant you chat with on X and grok.com. Grok Bot is a separate app for delegating real, multi-step work — like running your Dev.to presence with Postiz.

💻

Own Cloud Computer

Every Bot gets a persistent cloud machine with a terminal. Postiz runs there, so your Dev.to posts go out even when your laptop is closed.

🔁

Routines

Turn any task into a routine that runs on a schedule. Your Bot drafts, schedules, and reports on Dev.to content without being asked twice.

🛡️

Approvals Built In

Bots ask before changing external systems. Review the Dev.to posts your Bot prepared in Postiz, approve, and it publishes.

How Postiz Works with Grok Bot

Postiz is listed on the Grok Bot plugin marketplace. Add it to a Bot and the Postiz skill, CLI, and command reference are installed on its cloud computer — the Bot can then manage your Dev.to workflow on its own.

✓Type /add-plugin postiz in a Bot chat, or add it from the Plugins sidebar
✓Store your POSTIZ_API_KEY as a Bot secret when prompted
✓The Bot reads the bundled SKILL.md and learns every Postiz command
✓Works in every Bot on your shared workspace, on desktop and iPhone
✓Approvals keep a human in the loop before anything is published

Grok Bot

# 1. Add the plugin to your Bot
/add-plugin postiz

# 2. Store your Postiz API key
#    as a secret when prompted

# 3. Ask your Bot to verify
You: Find my Dev.to channel in Postiz

Bot: Running postiz integrations:list
  Found your Dev.to integration.
  All Postiz commands are ready.

Dev.to Publishing with Grok Bot

Your Bot reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Dev.to integration, and handles the entire posting workflow — from content creation to scheduling — on its own cloud computer.

🧠

Message Your Bot

Desktop, iPhone, or a group chat

Send a message to your Bot from the desktop app or your iPhone. It runs on its own cloud computer, so it picks up your message, discovers your Dev.to account via Postiz, uploads your media, and schedules the post — then asks you to approve before it goes live.

Grok Bot

You: Post to Dev.to about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Bot: Got it! Here's the plan:
  1. Find your Dev.to integration
  2. Compose your post content
  3. Schedule for tomorrow 9:00 AM

  Done! Post scheduled successfully.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Routines

Recurring work on a schedule

Save the task as a routine. Your Bot runs it on a schedule from the cloud, checks for new content, and posts it to Dev.to automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Grok Bot routine

Routine: daily-devto-posts
Schedule: Weekdays at 9:00 AM

Instructions:
  Check ~/content/posts on your cloud
  computer for new .txt files. For
  each one, read the content and
  schedule a post to Dev.to for
  today at noon via Postiz. Move
  posted files to ~/content/published
  and send me a summary.

Why Grok Bot + Postiz for Dev.to

Grok Bot makes Postiz a natural fit for your Dev.to workflow. The Bot reads the plugin's skill, chains the right commands together, and keeps running from the cloud.

✓Official plugin — one command install from the marketplace
✓Always on — posts to Dev.to from the cloud while you are away
✓Terminal access runs Postiz commands directly on the Bot's computer
✓Routines for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Dev.to + other platforms in a single conversation
✓Approvals keep a human in the loop before publishing

SKILL.md (bundled in the plugin)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Dev.to
metadata:
  grok-bot:
    plugin: postiz
    secrets:
      - POSTIZ_API_KEY
    binaries:
      - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Dev.to Settings
title, main_image, canonical,
organization, tags

Also Works with Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Dev.to integration, uploads your cover image, applies tags and organization settings, and publishes the article.

Claude Code

> Publish my React tutorial to Dev.to
  under our org with a cover image,
  tag it with react and webdev

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz upload ./cover.png
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat react-tutorial.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":
      "React Tutorial",
      "main_image":{"id":"...",
        "path":"uploaded-url"},
      "organization":"org-id",
      "tags":[...]}' \
    -i "devto-id"

Dev.to + Other Platforms

Publish the same article to Dev.to and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Cross-post an article to Dev.to and Medium
postiz posts:create \
  -c "$(cat article.md)" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Building Real-Time Apps",
    "canonical": "https://myblog.dev/real-time",
    "tags": [
      {"value": "webdev", "label": "Web Dev"},
      {"value": "react", "label": "React"}
    ]
  }' \
  -i "devto-id,medium-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Dev.to articles
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat articles/day${day}.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":"Day '"$day"' Dev Tips","tags":[{"value":"tutorial","label":"Tutorial"}]}' \
    -i "devto-id"
done

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