Digg Short URLs

 

Digg Short URLs Example Request Example Responses XML JSON PHP Endpoints Arguments

 

Fetches short URL information from Digg.

 

Example Request

 

Create a new Digg short URL for: http://www.google.com

 

 

http://services.digg.com/url/short/create?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com3&appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2fapplication

 

Example Responses

 

XML

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shorturls count="1" offset="0" timestamp="1238693806" total="1">
<shorturl itemid="11264084" link="http://www.google.com" short_url="http://digg.com/d1lGIm" view_count="0"/>
</shorturls>

 

JSON

 

 

{"shorturls":[
{"link":"http:\/\/www.google.com",
"short_url":"http:\/\/digg.com\/d1lGIm",
"itemid":11264084,
"view_count":0}
]}

 

PHP

 

 

O:16:"DiggAPIShortURLs":5:{s:9:"shorturls";a:1:{i:0;O:15:"DiggAPIShortURL":4:{s:4:"link";s:21:"http://www.google.com";s:9:"short_url";s:22:"http://digg.com/d1lGIm";s:6:"itemid";i:11264084;s:10:"view_count";i:0;}}s:9:"timestamp";i:1238697633;s:5:"total";i:1;s:5:"count";i:1;s:6:"offset";i:0;}

 

Endpoints

 

 

GET /url/short/create

Create a new Digg short URL.

503 Service unavailable indicates that you making too many requests, see BasicConcepts#BePolitePlease for more information.

GET /url/short/{Digg short url}

Information for a given Digg short URL.

404 Not Found indicates that the given short URL does not exist.

 

Arguments

 

Additional query string parameters to endpoints above. See also Response Types and Application Keys.

 

 

url

Required for the /url/short/create endpoint

the urlencoded URL you want to shorten, e.g.: http%3a%2f%2fwww.google.com