TED talk API or workaround for data access

It is my understanding that TED likely is not looking at making a BlackBerry App. I have a few frameworks I've created already for parsing various types of API's/feeds/services and would like to know if there is a way for a third party developer to make 开发者_开发知识库a TED app. I've heard mention of an API via the Googles but cannot find it.

I know this is quite old, but I just came across it. I was searching for an API for TED Talks as well, but was unable to find one. They have announced that they'll open up the site with an API, but I don't know when.

Instead, I decided to use the XML RSS feed, which is easily parsable. It's only usable for the latest talks and you naturally can't do any server-side filtering, but if that's good enough for you, you should definitely check out the feed:

http://www.ted.com/talks/rss

There's also the higher definition version of that feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TedtalksHD?fmt=xml

There is an unofficial API for all ted talks details (gathered from youtube and ted.com)

its updated weekly with the data

http://market.mashape.com/bestapi/ted

supports:

• get talks by name
• get talks by speaker
• get talks by description
• get talks by transcript / search transcript

and looks like they publish more end-points from time to time

If you guys are still looking for something, I just open-sourced about 5400 hundred TED talks (TEDx, TED, TEDEd). Check it out and build something cool.

https://github.com/saranyan/TED-talks