Digg

Hey everyone,

As you know, we have been working towards empowering developers to create more feature-rich applications for Digg. Today we are releasing a revamped API that allows developers to write/contribute data using OAuth, a feature that many developers have been eagerly anticipating. In this release, Digging and burying both stories and comments are now supported.

In addition to the revamped API, we focused extensively on usability and have included an updated API documentation section on Digg with more detail on each API method including code and response examples. Today's changes, as well as our updates this summer to the API license, give developers much more freedom to create (and profit from) great new applications off the Digg platform.

To help showcase some of the new functionality, we've created a reference app off the new API, a streamlined version of the Digg site called DiggLite, which can serve as a blueprint for any basic Digg-based application. It includes a river of the most recently popular stories, which can be Dugg and buried remotely, and the means of breaking things down by top-level topics. You can find it at digglite.com or download the source code on Github.

Initially, the ability to create applications that can write data will only be available for a limited number of beta testers. If you are interested in creating an application please send a brief description of what you are doing and Digg username to api [at] digg.com.

You may follow @diggapi on Twitter to be notified quickly of any status changes to the API, including any issues or downtime information.

Stay tuned for more announcements about the API, including the ability to submit new stories and comments, as well as updates on the new apps being created by partners such as Boxee and other developers that catch our eye. We look forward to your feedback!

story.digg() on!
- Jeff