Have you ever wanted a lightweight, self‑hosted API that serves your own DEV.to articles in JSON?
In this tutorial I’ll walk you through the core ideas behind a small Rust service that fetches your posts directly from the DEV.to /api/articles/me/all endpoint and exposes them at GET /posts on localhost:3030.
First, we use Warp as our web server and routing library. Warp’s filter system makes it trivial to mount a route, handle query parameters, and return JSON. In main.rs we set up a single filter for warp::path("posts"), combine it with warp::get(), and dispatch to a handler function.
The handler uses a “use case” module powered by Reqwest and Serde. When you ping /posts, the service reads your API_KEY (from a .env file), builds an HTTP client, and issues a GET to https://dev.to/api/articles/me/all with the required headers:
• api-key:
• Accept: application/vnd.forem.api-v1+json
• User-Agent: reqwest
The JSON response is deserialized into a Vec struct, defined with #[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")] and fields matching the API (id, title, description, slug, url, tag_list, etc). Finally, we wrap that vector in a GetApiCallOutputType and return it as JSON via Warp.
Because it’s pure Rust, this service is fast, statically linked, and easy to containerize. You can build it in release mode (cargo build --release) or package it in Docker with a multi‑stage Dockerfile. Once running, everything is accessible on port 3030.
Next steps could include adding pagination support, in‑memory or Redis caching, request throttling, or even basic auth to protect your local endpoint. Give it a spin, tweak it to your needs, and let me know how you extend it!
You check the git repository Here
