daily.dev Documentation
Everything you need to get the most out of daily.dev.
From installing the extension to tuning your feed, joining Squads, and turning on Career Mode. Reference docs for every part of daily.dev.
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Introduction
Start here
What daily.dev is, who it is for, and how to make the most of it.
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Getting started
Set up the extension
Turn every new tab into a curated developer feed in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Brave.
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Career
Career Mode
Land your next role on your own terms. Developer-first hiring, no recruiter spam.
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Power features
Plus
Custom Feeds, Clickbait Shield, and the public API for power users.
The full library
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75 pages across 11 sections, written by the team behind daily.dev. Scroll a shelf to scan the section, or jump straight to any page.
Getting started
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Browser extension installation guide for daily.dev
Install the daily.dev browser extension for a seamless browsing experience. Get daily.dev in your new tab to build a reading habit and explore key features like the companion widget.
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Web app and mobile apps
Use daily.dev in any browser with the web app, install it as a progressive web app (PWA), or get the native daily.dev app for iOS and Android.
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Setting up your feed
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Creating a personal feed
Set up your personalized For you feed on daily.dev by following topics, sources, Squads, and people, and learn where to find every feed setting.
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Advanced filtering
Use the Filters page in your daily.dev feed settings to choose which content types and post types appear in your feed, like videos, polls, news, tutorials, or memes.
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Blocking and report
Learn how to block tags, sources, Squads, and users on daily.dev, where to unblock them, and how to report a post.
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Following and blocking users
Learn how to follow, unfollow, and block other developers on daily.dev, what each one changes, and where to manage the people you follow or block.
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Chips
Chips are the feed tabs above your daily.dev feed. Each chip is its own feed, built from the tags you choose, that you can rename, edit, or delete. Add new ones with the + button.
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Appearance settings
Change how daily.dev looks and behaves under Settings > Appearance, including theme (dark, light, or auto), card or list layout, sidebar labels, feed sorting, the companion widget, and how links open.
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Key features
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Feeds
Learn about the feeds on daily.dev, including For you, Following, Explore (Popular, By upvotes, By comments, By date and Best of) and your custom feeds.
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Following feed
Learn how the Following feed works on daily.dev, what content appears there, and how to manage the people, sources, and Squads that shape it.
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Search
Learn how to search for posts, people, tags, Squads, and sources on daily.dev, and how to filter and narrow your results.
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Upvotes & downvotes
Learn about the Upvote and Downvote system on daily.dev, designed to enhance content quality and optimize your experience on the platform.
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Discussions
Engage in discussions on daily.dev to share insights, connect with other developers, and enhance your professional network.
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Polls
Create and participate in polls on daily.dev to gather community opinions and engage with quick, interactive questions.
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Bookmarks
Learn how to save, organize, and sync daily.dev bookmarks across devices and share them on GitHub for seamless access and integration.
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Pause New Tab (DND)
Learn how to use the Pause New Tab (Do Not Disturb) feature on daily.dev to minimize distractions and focus on your work.
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Companion widget
Learn about the daily.dev Companion Widget, its features, activation process, and how it enhances user engagement directly on post pages.
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Happening now
Happening Now is a curated hub of the most important developer stories, releases, and discussions in real time. Learn how to browse channels, expand TL;DRs, and subscribe to digests on daily.dev.
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Your profile
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Profile page & activity
A tour of your public daily.dev profile page, what visitors see, what only you see, and where your reading activity, stats, posts, and replies show up.
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Reputation explained
How reputation works on daily.dev, how you earn and lose points, where your reputation shows, and what it unlocks.
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Achievements
How achievements work on daily.dev, where to find them, how rarity and XP work, and how to showcase your favorite achievements on your profile.
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Top readers
How the monthly Top Reader badge works on daily.dev, how it's awarded, where it shows on your profile, and how to download it.
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Reading streaks
How reading streaks work on daily.dev, what counts as a reading day, how weekends and time zones work, and how to protect your streak with freezes, restores, and reminders.
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Quests
How daily, weekly, and milestone quests work on daily.dev, how to claim XP, reputation, and Cores, how levels work, and what you'll find in the Game Center.
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DevCard
Create and customize your daily.dev DevCard, a shareable card with your reputation, longest streak, posts read, top tags, and sources. Embed it on GitHub or use it as your X header.
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Stack & tools
Showcase your tech stack on daily.dev: add the languages, frameworks, and tools you use, organize them into sections, reorder them, and share your stack.
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Profile experiences
Add your work experience, education, certifications, open source work, projects, and volunteering to your daily.dev profile, or fill them in from your CV.
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Verified company badge
Verify your work email on daily.dev to show your employer's logo next to your name. Who is eligible, how to verify, and what to do if something goes wrong.
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Reading history
Find every post you've opened on daily.dev, search and filter your reading history, read posts again in the reader pane, and remove posts from your history.
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Post and Squad analytics
Use the daily.dev analytics dashboard, per-post analytics, profile views, and Squad analytics to see how your posts and Squads perform.
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Account settings
Find your way around daily.dev settings. Edit your profile details, change your email and login methods, set a password, and manage appearance, posting, invites, and more.
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Notification settings and preferences
Choose which daily.dev notifications you get in the app, by push, and by email, mute individual posts and threads, set reading reminders, and unsubscribe from emails.
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Deleting your profile
How to permanently delete your daily.dev account, what happens to your data and content, and what can block a deletion.
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Squads
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Creating your Squad
Learn how to create your own developer-focused Squad on daily.dev. Customize, invite members, and foster a collaborative community.
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Growing your Squad
Learn how to grow your Squad on daily.dev, from posting and sharing to inviting members, getting into the Squads directory, and boosting.
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Moderating your Squad
Learn how to manage your Squad on daily.dev, with member roles, posting rules, the post approval queue, blocking and muting, rules, and privacy settings.
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Becoming a public Squad
Learn how public Squads work on daily.dev, what it takes to appear in the Squads directory, how to pick a category, and how Squads get featured.
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Verified Company Squads
What a Verified Company Squad is, how it compares to a regular Squad, how to brand it, how to list open roles on its Jobs tab, and how your company can get one on daily.dev.
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Weekly intel
A weekly report on what developers read and discuss in your topics: which topics grow, what else your readers read, and which posts, titles, formats and publish times work. Part of daily.dev for Startups and Verified Company Squads.
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Manage your Squad with AI
Manage your company's Squad end to end from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code or any MCP client: edit the page, branding, products, members and seats, read analytics, and publish and moderate posts through the daily.dev MCP server or public API.
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Slack integration for Squads
Connect a daily.dev Squad to a Slack channel so every new post lands in Slack, and learn how to set it up, use private channels, and fix a connection that stopped.
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Plus
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Plus overview
What you get with daily.dev Plus - 50% back in Cores, full Public API access, Presidential Briefings, advanced custom feeds, Clickbait Shield, Bookmark Folders, Keyword Filters, auto-translate, bonus quest slots and an ad-free feed - and how team plans work.
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Presidential Briefing
Meet the Presidential Briefing - your personal AI agent that scans hundreds of posts, videos, and threads to deliver a personalized, high-impact briefing in 3-5 minutes. Stay effortlessly informed with must-know updates, horizon-expanding content, and built-in bullshit detection.
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Advanced Custom Feeds
Create custom feeds on daily.dev for specific topics, and with Plus fine-tune each one with its own sources, content types, sorting, time range, thresholds and blocked content, set it as your default feed, or query it through the API.
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Clickbait Shield
Clickbait Shield on daily.dev uses AI to rewrite clickbait, vague or overly promotional post titles into clear, informative ones. Try it a few times a month for free, or turn it on for your whole feed with Plus.
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Bookmark Folders
Organize your daily.dev bookmarks into folders with Bookmark Folders, a daily.dev Plus feature. Create up to 50 folders with a name and emoji, move bookmarks between them, and rename or delete folders.
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Keyword Filters
Keyword Filters on daily.dev hide posts whose titles contain words or phrases you block. A daily.dev Plus feature you set up in Feed settings, for your main feed or per custom feed.
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Public API
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Public API
Access your daily.dev feed programmatically with the Public API. Build integrations with AI coding assistants, automate workflows, and access personalized developer content via REST API.
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Welcome to the daily.dev API
Create a Personal Access Token, make your first request, and point your coding agent at the daily.dev API. Setup, auth, and a first query in about five minutes.
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daily.dev MCP server
Connect Claude, Cursor, Codex, VS Code or any MCP client to daily.dev. Your agent gets your personalized feed, search, bookmarks and more as tools, with sign-in through daily.dev or a personal access token.
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Plugin marketplace
Find plugins that teach your coding agent new workflows on top of the daily.dev API, and submit your own. Every plugin is reviewed by the daily.dev team before it goes live.
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Sign in with daily.dev (OAuth apps)
Register an OAuth app so people can sign in with daily.dev and let your app call the public API or MCP server on their behalf, without sharing a personal access token.
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Read daily.dev from your terminal
Build dailydev, a small TypeScript CLI for the daily.dev API using node:util parseArgs and zod. Readable output for you, --json for your coding agent.
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Build your own morning briefing
Turn the daily.dev CLI into a scheduled morning briefing: gather your feed, the most-discussed posts, and the comment threads worth reading, then have a model write the brief.
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Organize your daily.dev bookmarks
Add local bookmark folders to the daily.dev CLI: group saved posts by name in a store you own, and swap the JSON file for a database whenever you outgrow it.
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Point your agent at daily.dev instead of web search
Point your coding agent at daily.dev instead of generic web search with the daily-dev-ask skill, and the reasoning behind how it searches.
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Organizations
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Organizations overview
Organizations are daily.dev team accounts: buy Plus seats for your team in one subscription, invite teammates with a link, and manage members, seats and billing in one place.
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Inviting and managing members
How to invite teammates to your daily.dev organization with an invite link, and how owners and admins manage seats, roles and members.
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Billing, seats and settings
Owners' guide to a daily.dev organization's billing: plan details, adding or removing seats, managing the subscription, changing the organization's name and logo, and deleting the organization.
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Career Mode
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Career Mode overview
Career Mode is a developer-first hiring experience that helps you land your next dream job on your own terms, with no spam, full privacy control, and high-quality job matches.
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Setting up Career Mode
Set up Career Mode on daily.dev. Choose your availability, upload your CV, and tell us the role, salary, location and tech stack you want so we only bring you jobs that fit.
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Making your profile work for Career Mode
How your daily.dev profile, CV and Stack & Tools feed Career Mode matching, which profile sections to fill in, and what a company sees once you say yes to a role.
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How job matching works
How Career Mode decides which roles to bring you, what it looks at, why companies can't browse developers, and what to change if you aren't getting matches.
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Reviewing job matches
What a Career Mode job match shows, what happens when you click Interested or Not for me, the questions we ask, and how to follow a match on your Jobs page.
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Privacy and trust
What Career Mode uses to match you, exactly what a company sees and when, what is never shared, and how to remove your CV or turn Career Mode off.
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Frequently asked questions
Answers to common questions about Career Mode on daily.dev, from setup and matching to privacy, declining roles and turning it off.
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Cores, Awards & Boost
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Cores
Learn how Cores, the in-app currency on daily.dev, work, how to get them, what you can spend them on, and how to track them in your Core wallet.
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Awards
Learn how Awards on daily.dev let you recognize great posts, comments, creators, Squads, and plugins with Cores, where Awards show up, and who can give and receive them.
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Boost
Boost your posts and Squads to reach more developers on daily.dev: who can boost, budgets and duration, where boosts appear, and how to track and stop them.
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For content creators
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How to get featured on daily.dev
The ways to get your content in front of developers on daily.dev - posting it yourself, running a Squad, suggesting a source, and getting credit for articles daily.dev already picked up.
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Content guidelines for daily.dev
Explore daily.dev's content guidelines for quality, ethical standards, and platform policies for creators, developers, and enthusiasts.
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Content moderation
How daily.dev moderates content: what we act on, source vetting, automated screening, review by our team, member reports, enforcement, and how to ask for a review.
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How to suggest a new source on daily.dev
Suggest a developer publication as a new source on daily.dev - who can suggest, which sites are eligible, how to submit an RSS feed, and how the review works.
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Getting credit for articles you wrote
How daily.dev links articles you wrote to your profile, and what you get once it does - the Creator badge, notifications, post analytics, reputation and Awards.
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Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions we hear most often about the docs themselves.
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