Direct-link versions of Digg feeds
If you want to follow the top links on Digg via RSS, you’ll notice that the RSS feeds do not contain these top links, but point to pages on Digg itself. Which is fine if “Digging” (= one-click tagging*) and commenting is your priority before reading the linked stories. But most likely you’ll want to go directly to the story, so the extra click via Digg is not really practical. That’s why I made these “Linklog” Feeds, with direct links to the top stories, but still containing the link to the Digg Page in the RSS item description so can still go comment or Digg immediately as well. (Digg this list or bookmark it for further reference)
Digg alternate feeds list, updated August 24th 2006
Since the July upgrade, the Digg Frontpage is identical to the Technology overview page, whereas the “All stories” page spans all categories going from entertainment to science.
The number of domains Digg covers has been expanded and ordered into main categories and subcategories:
- Digg Technology: Link Log
- Digg Science: Link Log
- Digg World & Business: Link Log
- Digg Sports: Link Log
- Digg Videos: Link Log
- Digg Entertainment: Link Log
- Digg Gaming: Link Log
*More on Digg user dynamics in a posting by Alex Bosworth, one of the people behind Open Source Software wiki Swik.
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March 15th, 2006 at 10:05
[...] Sitedeals15 released vond dit ook en heeft daarom per Digg-categorie een RSS-feed gemaakt waarmee je direct op de betreffende pagina uitkomt. Het levert wel een aantal extra feeds op (alsof er nog niet voldoende in mijn reader zitten), maar het heeft toch mijn voorkeur boven de extra click die er nu tussendoor komt. Enkele feeds heb ik hieronder weergegeven, de complete lijst kun je in de posting vinden. [...]
March 15th, 2006 at 15:50
Thanks, seems like a really interesting service.
March 22nd, 2006 at 09:22
[...] I’d like to clear up that I’ve just come across some semantic definitions…some people consider a difference between a linklog and a linkblog…from the post: [...]
April 24th, 2006 at 21:47
Thanks. perfect for us firewalled individules. For some reason My company blocks digg but not slashdot.
April 24th, 2006 at 22:05
Hadn’t thought of that aspect, but I’m glad it serves you well :-)
April 30th, 2006 at 23:19
[...] Direct-link versions of Digg feeds (tags: rss Digg) [...]
July 21st, 2006 at 20:19
Very cool. What about the new digg categories?
August 3rd, 2006 at 03:17
Appreciate your effort, it serves my Firefox/Sage well. Unfortunately, feedburner somehow force gzip encoding, rendering my other not-so-advanced ‘browser’ (iSiloX) powerless.
August 26th, 2006 at 00:04
[...] I’ve updated my list of direct link feeds for Digg. If you’re a Digg fan, you might also want to checke these 2 Digg tools collections and the Digg blog: [...]
September 4th, 2006 at 11:33
Great now I really can use digg feeds on my mobile phone’s RSS reader. The digg page with all the comments took ages to load. How did you do this? I have some feeds which I would like to convert in a similar way. I registered at feedburner now but I cannot see how you did the conversion. Could you provide a HOWTO or links to the documentation on feedburner describing theis feature?
Thanks
September 26th, 2006 at 15:25
Thanks for the list. I have writen a post on various features missing from Digg(at http://binnyva.blogspot.com/2006/09/top-5-features-missing-from-digg.html) and Linkless RSS feed was one of my main complaints.
Now, even if Digg don’t improve their feed, I can subscribe digg from Firefox.
October 1st, 2006 at 16:25
Just found this while checking what you’re up to these days, and appreciate it very much (I didn’t subscribe to digg when you first published this, so apparently wasn’t interested then).
Feature request: could you add a pubdate property to each item?
And what _are_ you up to? Too busy working to post new articles? ;) (That’s certainly true for me at the moment…)
November 2nd, 2006 at 21:25
[...] Direct Link Digg Feeds/ - Modified Digg feeds for direct access to the Digged pages. [...]
December 7th, 2006 at 17:49
[...] More on Google Reader Posted 12/7/06 at 9:49 am in software & websites. I continue to be impressed with Google Reader. Here’s a shot of the feeds I’m subscribed to.I finally found a linklog of the Digg/All feed that’ll take me directly to the target Digg link. The extra clicks got annoying.Here’s my top 5 feeds:LifehackerMAKE:BlogdZone.comNewsBusters.orgArs Technicadigg/allShare This [...]
December 14th, 2006 at 18:17
This is a great feed, however, I’m frustrated by how infrequently it updates. It’s a lot slower than the official digg feed.
December 26th, 2006 at 15:21
this is great; would it be more difficult to offer a NYTimes feed that linked directly to the print (ad-free) view, using a similar tactic? that would be great.
February 13th, 2007 at 04:44
[...] So I googled to see if anyone had created an rss feed that pointed to the direct links of the digg stories, and it turns out that someone has created Direct-link versions of Digg feeds. [...]
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:21
“This is a great feed, however, I’m frustrated by how infrequently it updates. It’s a lot slower than the official digg feed.”
“Could you provide a HOWTO or links to the documentation on feedburner describing theis feature?”
February 22nd, 2007 at 21:42
The “(Digg and comment this)” links do not go to digg.com. Rather, they point to whichever site you use the feed on. I’d be very grateful if this was fixed :-)
February 22nd, 2007 at 22:17
“The “(Digg and comment this)” links do not go to digg.com. Rather, they point to whichever site you use the feed on. I’d be very grateful if this was fixed :-)”
Nick, this works fine for me using Google Reader and just tested it using Bloglines as well and everything works.
March 29th, 2007 at 18:11
ahh, been looking for this for feedmashr.com
March 31st, 2007 at 18:16
Hey AJ, did the feeds go down yesterday and today?
I’m not getting any stories since Mar 29
April 1st, 2007 at 02:36
I’m not using these feeds. They’re not updated frequently enough.
April 3rd, 2007 at 01:56
Man, when are these feeds going to come back?
I can’t live without them
April 3rd, 2007 at 08:42
Hi, hope the feeds will get fixed, can’t live without them!
April 10th, 2007 at 06:57
Hey, can you release the code to your feed filters?
The feeds right now don’t check on digg often enough and lose tons of articles.
I’d like to run the feeds more often on my own server for my own private use.
April 10th, 2007 at 07:02
Hey, can you release the code to your feed filters?
The feeds right now don’t check on digg often enough and lose tons of articles.
I’d like to run the feeds more often on my own server for my own private use.
Ditto!
April 13th, 2007 at 00:09
Yeah, my feed is down too… along with a bunch of other feeds using the API. I think they caught on and banned by IP address. My server can’t even look at main page anymore.
April 13th, 2007 at 03:27
They started blocking IPs? that’s so evil.
why force your users to read all that crap? fine, they can put ads in the feeds, just dont’ waste my time going to the slow-loading page.
August 29th, 2007 at 16:24
Looks like Digg updated yesterday, and broke this great feed. Sad Day :(
August 29th, 2007 at 16:45
Piggfeed is still up and kicking.
August 31st, 2007 at 19:19
The general ones (e.g. Technology) don’t work anymore, but the specific ones (Apple) seem to…
September 11th, 2007 at 07:33
I’m not getting excerpts anymore, just the headlines :(