Questions tagged [digg]

The former API for the Digg.com, a social link aggregator that operated from 2002 to 2012.

The former API for the Digg.com, a social link aggregator that operated from 2002 to 2012.

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How to implement a Digg-like algorithm?

How to implement a website with a recommendation system similar to stackoverflow/digg/reddit? I.e., users submit content and the website needs to calculate some sort of "hotness" according to how popular the item is. The flow is as follows: Users…
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How does the DiggBar dynamically resize its iframe's height based on content not on their domain?

Someone has already asked, How does the DiggBar work? in a previous question. While someone provided a decent answer it didn't address one thing: How does Digg dynamically resize their iframe's height, based on the content of a site across a…
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A Digg-like rotating homepage of popular content, how to include date as a factor?

I am building an advanced image sharing web application. As you may expect, users can upload images and others can comments on it, vote on it, and favorite it. These events will determine the popularity of the image, which I capture in a "karma"…
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How does the DiggBar work?

How does the DiggBar work? I'm trying to make an ASP.NET MVC DiggBar clone just for learning purposes and does anyone have a suggestion on how to specify the url of the content for the lower frame? How would you go about constructing that in…
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Problem using $.getJSON() with jQuery

I'm trying to run the following: $.getJSON('http://services.digg.com/2.0/story.getTopNews?limit=25&callback=?', function(data) { console.log(data); }); But I'm getting: story.getTopNews:-1Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with…
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How Does Digg remove "&x=0&y=0" from their Search Results URL?

I'm using an image as the submit button for a search form, i.e.: This has an unfortunate side effect in Chrome and Firefox--the parameters &x=0&y=0 appear on the…
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Writing Digg like system in django/python

I am tying to write a digg , hackernews , http://collectivesys.com/ like application where users submit something and other users can vote up or down , mark items as favorite ect . I was just wondering if there are some open source implementations …
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XML to LINQ with Digg API

Continuining from my previous question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7817619/unknown-error-using-digg-api-and-uri-handler-silverlight, which I want to thank you for answering) I now have a follow up less errory question. To extract the data…
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Digg-like search result ranking with Lucene / Solr?

I'm using Solr for search. I have documents that have an integer field "popularity". I want to rank results by a combination of normal fulltext search relevance and popularity. It's kinda like search in digg - result ranking is based on the search…
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Replicate Digg's Image-Suggestions from Submitted URL with PHP

So I'm looking for ideas on how to best replicate the functionality seen on digg. Essentially, you submit a URL of your page of interest, digg then crawl's the DOM to find all of the IMG tags (likely only selecting a few that are above a certain…
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Digg.com style oauth

I've been trying to figure out exactly how digg.com and other similar sites deal with authentication via oauth. Creating an account via oauth is pretty straight forward, the user clicks the twitter/facebook connect button which then digg sends our a…
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Using Drupal to do what Digg Does

I'm trying to create a site where, like Digg, a user can submit a link and using ajax it attempts to pull the metadata from the page into a title and description field. The user can change either of these fields then submit the content. Ideally a…
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Help me to get better understanding of Digg's Cassandra data model

http://about.digg.com/blog/looking-future-cassandra I've found this article about Digg's move to Cassandra. But I didn't get the author's idea of Bucket for pair (user,item). Little more details on the idea would be helpful to me to understand the…
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Applet works when ran from Eclipse, not so well in the browser

I have a Java applet related problem and I would appreciate your help. Here's the story: I tried creating an applet, that would try to connect to digg.com and by using it's API, show the 100 most popular stories (also include some options to sort…
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OAuth Invalid signature issue with Digg

So I'm trying to authenticate my app to Digg using OAuth (and I'm totally not an OAuth expert). I use the Scribe Java library. I keep on getting the HTTP 401 Authorization Required. Inside the body of the response, it is a 5001 Invalid Signature…
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