Ditto Blog

Hi, I’m Mike, I do a lot of the “behind the scenes” work on the Ditto site, which basically means that most of the time other people take the credit for my work. Occasionally they do let me out into the public eye however, so here I am.

I’m pleased to announce that Ditto now has a fledgling public API ready for all you aspiring developers out there. It’s a closed Beta at the moment, so you’ll need an API key from  us directly at the moment (see About API Keys for more information).

You can check out the documentation at http://api.ditto.net, though I apologise in advance for its fairly sparse nature. Currently the API only exposes public, read-only information - that is to say, although you can retrieve the current chart positions for a list, you can’t vote things up and down.

We’ll be adding features to, and improving, the api all the time, so let us know if there’s anything in particular that you would like added. Methods that require authentication (e.g. voting, leaving comments) are probably a way off for the time being, so be patient on that front!

Thanks!