Digg API: Grabbing a Random Digg Story with PHP
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I read about the Digg API the other day, and I thought it was about time I played around with it.
There is a ton of cool stuff you can do with this. Basically, you send a request to the Digg server and it sends back whatever kind of information you want - category names, recent diggs, recent stories, archived stories, etc. You can read through the API to see everything you can do.
For now, we’ll focus on one nifty little trick - grabbing a random story from a given topic.
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