NAME

WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll - Perl extension to get a blogroll from Bloglines.com.

SYNOPSIS

use WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll;

my $bloglines = new WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll(user_name => 'some valid name');

$bloglines->retrieve_blogroll();

#
# Get blogroll as hash reference which contains a following data structure:
# 
#	{
# 	folder_name => [ { item_title => 'title', item_url => 'url' }, ... ],
#		. . .
#	}				
my $blogroll_hash = $bloglines->blogroll_hashref;

#
# Also, you can retrieve a list of item for specific folder
#
my $blogroll_hash = $bloglines->blogroll_hashref('folder_name');

#
# Get blogroll as string contained html code where each folder name surrounded
# by <h2> tags and list of folder's items put into unordered list (<ul>). 
# You can easy to embed the blogroll into your design using CSS.
my $blogroll_html = $blog->blogroll_html;

DESCRIPTION

Bloglines is the most of famous and handy online tool for agregate and read RSS feeds. WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll is a simple Perl class which can be used to retrieve your blogroll from Bloglines, process it and display it on your personal page.

CONSTRUCTOR

new()

To retrieve a blogroll from Bloglines it's necessarily to specify an user name of owner of blogroll:

new WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll(user_name => 'some_name');

or

new WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll(user_name => 'some_name', folder => 'some folder');

OBJECT'S PROPERTIES

user_name

User name for Bloglines

new WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll(user_name => 'some_name');

or

$bloglines->user_name('some name');

folder

A specific folder from Bloglines

new WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll(user_name => 'some_name', folder => 'some folder');

or

$bloglines->user_name('some name');	

page

Contains an original page received from Bloglines

http_proxy

Contains a proxy http proxy. (By default, it's got from environment)

OBJECT'S METHODS

retrieve_blogroll()

Get a blogroll from Bloglines according to specified parametes:

my $bloglines = new WebService::Bloglines::Blogroll(user_name => 'name1');
$bloglines->retrieve_blogroll();
my $list = $bloglines->get_blogroll_hash();

. . .

$bloglines->user_name('name2');
$bloglines->retrieve_blogroll();
my $list2 = $bloglines->get_blogroll_hash();

get_blogroll_as_html()

Returns a blogroll as HTML:

my $html = $bloglines->get_blogroll_as_html();

get_blogroll_hash()

Returns a blogroll as hash:

my $all_items = $bloglines->get_blogroll_hash();

or for specified folder

my $folder_items = $bloglines->get_blogroll_hash('some folder');

get_list_folders()

Returns a list of all folders in the Bloglines blogroll

my $folders = $bloglines->get_list_folders();

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

WebService::Bloglines

AUTHOR

Michael stepanov, <stepanov.michael@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Michael Stepanov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.