Digg is a social news website that allows people to discover and share content found on the web. When users 'digg' their favorite content, they're voting their approval.
From the biggest online destination to the most obscure blog, Digg builds lists of popular stories being shared across the web.
DataSift offers all the Digg data including the number of diggs received by a post, the number of comments, the Digg 'topic' selected for each digg, plus information about the user who made each digg.
For more information, take a look at Understanding the Output Data in our documentation suite.
Example Use Case:
You're interested in the sentiment of a popular sports news story. You want to filter against Digg to capture content that relates to the news story, and that has been 'dugg' by more than 100 members of the Digg community.
{
"digg":{
"user":{
"name":"ReginaRodriguez",
"links":[
],
"registered":1269907798,
"profileviews":0,
"fullname":"Regina Rodriguez",
"icon":"http://cdn1.diggstatic.com/user/6938351/l.2059350069.png"
},
"type":"digg",
"id":"20120131054345:e984e32e-c550-41ca-8c97-93f902e38670",
"created_at":"Tue,
31 Jan 2012 16:31:45 +0000",
"item":{
"status":"upcoming",
"container":{
"name":"Entertainment",
"short_name":"entertainment"
},
"description":"Sometimes it seems like science fiction,
and especially fantasy,
are genres that lend themselves exclusively to trilogies and long-running series. But some of the greatest writers in speculative fiction have only written standalone novels,
not series or trilogies.",
"title":"Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Who Never Wrote Sequels or Trilogies",
"submit_date":1327988625,
"media":0,
"diggs":68,
"comments":1,
"thumbnail":{
"src":"http://cdn1.diggstatic.com/story/great_science_fiction_and_fantasy_writers_who_never_wrote_sequels_or_trilogies/t.png",
"contentType":"image/png",
"originalheight":300,
"height":62,
"width":62,
"originalwidth":300
},
"topic":{
"name":"Entertainment",
"short_name":"entertainment"
},
"shorturl":{
"short_url":"http://digg.com/news/entertainment/great_science_fiction_and_fantasy_writers_who_never_wrote_sequels_or_trilogies",
"view_count":0
},
"link":"http://io9.com/5880602/great-science-fiction-and-fantasy-writers-who-never-wrote-sequels-or-trilogies",
"href":"http://digg.com/news/entertainment/great_science_fiction_and_fantasy_writers_who_never_wrote_sequels_or_trilogies",
"id":"20120131054345:e984e32e-c550-41ca-8c97-93f902e38670"
}
}
}
