The Digg API is now officially released. It is so nice to finally have the documentation for something that I've been trying to use for about two months now. It has clued me in on a several features that I had been craving in my DiggReSS feed (which is finally resurrected after about a month of being dead).

DiggReSS is my alternative Digg RSS feed. It links directly to the article in question while providing several other article related links (the Digg page and various mirrors).


DiggReSS in RSSOwl

As of this morning DiggReSS has the ability to choose individual topics (e.g. Apple or Playable Web Games). I also implemented a caching system which will store the feed on my server with a timestamp. This way it will request updates at most once every five minutes and is thus much kinder to the Digg server (mmh… irony).

Note to API users:
If you're using PHP, make sure that you have ini_set('user_agent', 'APPLICATION NAME'); somewhere in your application, otherwise the Digg API will simply return a blank page.

DiggReSS: Link
Digg API Documentation: Link