User Generated Content - dynamically retrieve popular content

Question

Looking at the documentation for UGC in Tridion SP1 2011, is it possible to dynamically query for "popular" content - so return all pages or components ordered by rating or number of comments?

The UGC commands seem to deal with comments/rating on an individual page/component - but not querying for content based upon that data.

Is something available in CD Web Service when you install UGC?

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Answer 1

I can definitely answer this part of your question:

Is something available in CD Web Service when you install UGC?

Yes. When you install UGC, your CD Web Service will get new collections for these UGC item types:

• Comments
• ItemStats
• Ratings
• Users

You can get the most popular items like this:

.../odata.svc/ItemStats?$orderby=AverageRating desc

If you filter it first and then limit the number of results it'll probably result in a slightly faster query:

.../odata.svc/ItemStats?$orderby=AverageRating desc&$filter=AverageRating gt 0.0&$top=5

I expect that ItemStats are probably also available through the Java and .NET APIs.