Dwwen Arab Blog Aggregator To Launch API Soon

Mohamed Marwen Meddah | June 22, 2008 | comment View Comments

DwwenDwwen, the popular Arab blog aggregator, almost shut down recently due to financial and resource burdens. Luckily a flow of supportive messages, and a generous offer by an Arab blogger to help the service out with the necessary server resources changed the aggregator’s destiny and gave it a new lease on life.

Now Dwwen are working on an API that they’ll be releasing very soon, in a move to open up their service and make the information aggregated in it more available and usable to everyone.

We got to play around with the inside beta of the API, and it’s really easy and simple to use. The API currently allows the pulling of articles directly from Dwwen; it provides the possibility to specify the number of articles you want to pull, the language of the pulled posts (Arabic, English or both), and whether you want to get the latest articles or the most popular ones.

A number of applications are also being built around the API, one of them using Adobe AIR, which is proving to be a pretty popular choice for internet applications on the desktop.

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  2. w43l on Jun 22, 2008 | Reply

    it is really sad to hear that a good website like this goes down for financial reasons

  3. Hisham Sadek on Jun 22, 2008 | Reply

    Glad to here about Dwwen API .. Dwwen is back on way of communication

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