Publish Articles From Your Site to dev.to

Expand your reach by automatically cross-posting your content to the dev.to community. This workflow monitors your blog's RSS feed, and for each new article, it formats and publishes it to your dev.to profile, including a canonical link back to the original source to preserve SEO value.

How does Helptail work?

Helptail lets you automate repetitive work by stitching together your tools, like RSS and dev.to, with a visual workflow builder. Create a workflow with just a few clicks, trigger it from webhooks, schedules, emails, or RSS, and assemble powerful steps that pass data between them. No code required. Focus on what matters while routine tasks run on autopilot.

Create a workflow

Define the exact sequence of steps you want to run, in the order you choose. This workflow uses 2 steps to automate your process. Reuse common steps across workflows to speed setup and maintain consistency. Save, test, and refine until everything behaves just right.
Set up a trigger

This workflow runs automatically to keep your RSS and dev.to data synchronized. Flexible conditions let you fine tune when a workflow runs based on your specific requirements.
Create steps

Each step is an API call or action, like “Format Article for dev.to API” that Converts the RSS item into the JSON format required by the dev.to API. Pass data forward by using outputs from earlier steps to drive later ones. Enjoy rich integrations with APIs, databases, and messaging services.