This API is deprecated, and will be going away in the future.  Please see the documentation for the new API here.

Digg Short URLs

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