BlackBerry® World™ Development

[medha_j]

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to get a list of Blackberry apps and also the list of comments on a particular app from my standalone java app (note: it is not a blackberry app).

Is there any API or web service which app world exposes to get this done? There are API for iphone and android apps, but I could not find any for BB yet. Also searched on the forums, but posts like mine have no replies.

Mr. Admins - please share your views.

Thanks,

Medha

[QuiteSimple]

There is no API or web service, although there was a promice for a webservice at least (no ETA ofc)

You can iterate over the links like this

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/XXXXX

where XXXX is а number starting from 1 to 20000 (for example)

[medha_j]

Thanks Quite Simple,

That is quite a disappointment actually.

The app link can show details on a browser, returns an html. It'll be difficult to extract details from it programatically.

Still trying to find better ways to do it.

[medha_j]

Ok, I found out RSS option which can return an XML atleast some of the things we can use -

App search -
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/rss/search/TEXT/

Reviews -
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/rss/reviews/APP_ID/

Phew, some relief

[QuiteSimple]

Thanks for sharing this info