Dipity Digg Script?

[Steve Williams]

Hi, Dipity developers. I'm Steve Williams from Digg.com.

I want to ask about the PHP script "The Evolution of Digg" featured
on the Dipity API page:

http://www.dipity.com/developer

I'm not very familiar with Dipity or the Dipity API yet, but I read
through the script and noted that, depending on the arguments, it can
make several hundred Digg API requests in a very short period of time.

That script appears to be the cause of a spike of Digg API requests
with the appkey of "http://www.dipity.com" last night, but that spike
caused us to block the IP address 75.101.255.67 from accessing the Digg API.

(That appears to be an Amazon AWS IP, probably an EC2 instance.)

How is that script intended to be used? Is it just an example? Who
would run it when? Would Dipity staff run it to populate a timeline
shared among all Dipity users? Would a Dipity user run it to add
Digg history to his own timeline?

It's fine to gather comprehensive historical data via the Digg API,
but we would ask that developers throttle API requests, so our pagers
don't go off.

http://apidoc.digg.com/BasicConcepts#BePolitePlease

Thanks for featuring Digg in your example, and for any further
information you can provide.