Digg API
Fianally Digg launched their API :
The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg. The API returns Digg data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site.
See the documentation at http://apidoc.digg.com/
Here's some interesting parts from their docs:
Be Polite, Please!
Use good judgment when designing your application. Don't make repeated requests for the same data frequently. […] We monitor API usage, and we may block applications that do silly things.
They also launched a contest for using this API.