API missing search functionality that the RSS has?

[phren]

Only just started converting a DIGG RSS feed we use on our site to use
the API, JSON and the API data are just far more simpler and detailed
then the RSS data, but I see one major issue.

With the RSS i could lets call it "GEO CODE" my results
$url = "http://digg.com/rss_search?search=".
$search."&area=promoted&type=both&section=all";

$search could be anything like 'Australia' or whatever, and then just
limit number of printed responses or filter the responses on my end.


With the API

There does not seem to be any kind of &search= functionality built
in, which would mean your always required to do searching on your end
through the descriptions and titles hoping to match a term, and since
the API only allows 100 responses, much of the time on our website the
keywords will not be getting a match from those 100 results.

Regardless of where you pulled the stories from, /all, popular,
upcoming etc. Where as the RSS just searches everything inside the
area you specify and returns valid stories that match your keyword.


Is there anyway, or any work being done on providing SEARCH term
functionality for the API the way the RSS feed does?


:(

[Steve Williams]

At 05:35 PM 2/14/2008, phren wrote:
>Is there anyway, or any work being done on providing SEARCH term
>functionality for the API the way the RSS feed does?

That question has come up a few times before:

http://groups.google.com/group/diggapi/browse_thread/thread/aaab9355d49a3fbc

But I do have an update: We've already done some of the groundwork to
add search to the API. We hope to make it available soon.

[phren]

On Feb 15, 2:23 pm, Steve Williams <s...@digg.com> wrote:

Awesome, can't wait to finish the revamp of our feed, you guys (and
girls?) have done a great job on this API one of the easiest i've ever
used, thanks for providing JSON output :)

I humbly await your search option, though please don't keep us
waiting, my fingernails are only so long :D



rgds