Digg’s Kevin Rose announced on his blog today that Digg’s API is now publicly available. It comes along with a Flash Application Toolkit and a competition for creating the most innovative visualizations and applications.
The API has been created to allow developers to interact programatically with Digg. Currently you can use the API to request very specific information about news stories and videos submitted to Digg, digging activity, comments, and users. The API accepts REST requests and offers several response types: XML, JSON, Javascript, and serialized PHP. In addition, a PEAR module is available for PHP.
To access Digg’s vast information database, a request is sent with the Application Key and a User-Agent HTTP header, and the API returns a UTF-8 encoded xml.
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