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/ WebService::TVDB

NAME

WebService::TVDB - Interface to http://thetvdb.com/

VERSION

version 1.133200

SYNOPSIS

my $tvdb = WebService::TVDB->new(api_key => 'ABC123', language => 'English', max_retries => 10);

my $series_list = $tvdb->search('men behaving badly');

my $series = @{$series_list}[0];
# $series is a WebService::TVDB::Series
say $series->SeriesName;
say $series->Overview;

# fetches full series data
$series->fetch();

say $series->Rating;
say $series->Status;

for my $episode (@{ $series->episodes }){
  # $episode is a WebService::TVDB::Episode
  say $episode->Overview;
  say $episode->FirstAired;
}

for my $actor (@{ $series->actors }){
  # $actor is a WebService::TVDB::Actor
  say $actor->Name;
  say $actor->Role;
}

for my $banner (@{ $series->banners }){
  # $banner is a WebService::TVDB::Banner
  say $banner->Rating;
  say $banner->url;
}

# can also get by id
my $series = $tvdb->get(76213);

# already done a fetch()

say $series->SeriesName;
say $series->Overview;
say $series->Rating;
say $series->Status;

DESCRIPTION

WebService::TVDB is an interface to http://thetvdb.com/.

METHODS

new

Creates a new WebService::TVDB object. Takes the following parameters:

api_key

This is your API key. If not passed in here, we will look in ~/.tvdb. Otherwise we will die.

language

The language you want tour results in. "See WebService::TVDB::Languages" for a list of languages. Defaults to English.

max_retries

The amount of times we will try to get the series if our call to the URL failes. Defaults to 10.

search( $term )

Searches the TVDB and returns a list of WebService::TVDB::Series as the result.

get( $id )

Get a single WebService::TVDB::Series by series id.

API KEY

To use this module, you will need an API key from http://thetvdb.com/?tab=apiregister.

You can pass this key into the constructor, or save it to ~/.tvdb.

AUTHOR

Andrew Jones <andrew@arjones.co.uk>

CONTRIBUTORS

  • Andrew Jones <andrew@andrew-jones.com>

  • Andrew Jones <andrewjones86@googlemail.com>

  • Fayland Lam <fayland@gmail.com>

  • Tim De Pauw <tim@pwnt.be>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Andrew Jones.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.