DiggFeedr - The Ultimate Digg Feed
Introducing DiggFeedr, a tiny little web app I built using the Digg API and Ruby on Rails. It’s sole purpose is to improve the RSS feed of Digg.
The main features include:
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100 Items long - I often found the standard Digg RSS feed to be too short (40 items) which often caused me to miss lots of stories if more than 40 were published over night. The main aim of the site is to fix this problem, now I never miss any stories on Digg.
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Direct links - Another issue with the Digg feed is that to get to the actual story you have to go through digg.com via their comments page, which is fine for less frequent users but if your a power user like me opening 10 or more tabs with digg in often causes web browsers to slow right down due to the large amounts of javascript on digg, So DiggFeedr has a direct link to the story in each item.
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Extra meta data - With the feed link going directly to the story page, I add some meta data to each feed item including the number of diggs and comments, the category it is in and who submitted it, each which all link back to the relevant sections of Digg.
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Cached by Feedburner - When I first put out DiggFeedr it brought my server to a complete standstill, each request was doing way too much work and so now I’m serving the feed via Feedburner which caches the feed making it much quicker, often it shows stories up faster than the feed from digg.com!
Just a note, DiggFeedr was made to scratch my own itch, I’m not trying to make money with it so it will remain 100% free, forever!
Nice job, Andrew! I’ve subscribed.
You should put up an Add to Any button to make it easier for others to subscribe: http://www.addtoany.com/webmasters/
Brad on September 23, 2007 1:59 am
shouldn’t have used digg in the url. digg guys may send out a cease and desist order
stabani on September 23, 2007 12:25 pm
This is great
All my digg using friends love it.
karen on September 24, 2007 6:09 pm
Does is, perchance, feed pictures from the Picture Section?
Kuyler on September 27, 2007 12:44 am
Excellent idea!
Fubiz on October 2, 2007 2:32 pm
are you being sued?
jeromy on October 6, 2007 5:43 am
I got a cease and desist letter from digg for trademark infringement, so I’ll have to change the name and some of the design very shortly.
Andrew on October 6, 2007 9:11 am
This is a great idea!!! i was on the verge of unsuscribing to Digg but DiggFeedr solves everything, even the mirror sites, thank you very much and good luck with the name change.
Kurazaybo on October 6, 2007 9:38 am
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