NAME
Net::Google - simple OOP-ish interface to the Google SOAP API
SYNOPSIS
use Net::Google;
use constant LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY => "********************************";
my $google = Net::Google->new(key=>LOCAL_GOOGLE_KEY);
my $search = $google->search();
# Search interface
$search->query(qw(aaron straup cope));
$search->lr(qw(en fr));
$search->ie("utf8");
$search->oe("utf8");
$search->starts_at(5);
$search->max_results(15);
map { print $_->title()."\n"; } @{$search->results()};
# or...
foreach my $r (@{$search->response()}) {
print "Search time :".$r->searchTime()."\n";
# returns an array ref of Result objects
# the same as the $search->results() method
map { print $_->URL()."\n"; } @{$r->resultElements()};
}
# Spelling interface
print $google->spelling(phrase=>"muntreal qwebec")->suggest(),"\n";
# Cache interface
my $cache = $google->cache(url=>"http://search.cpan.org/recent");
print $cache->get();DESCRIPTION
Provides a simple OOP-ish interface to the Google SOAP API
PACKAGE METHODS
__PACKAGE__->new(\%args)
Valid arguments are :
key
string. A Google API key.
http_proxy
url. A URL for proxy-ing HTTP requests.
debug
Valid options are:
boolean
If true prints debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite to STDERR
coderef.
Your own subroutine for munging the debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite.
Note that prior to version 0.60, arguments were not passed by reference. Versions >= 0.60 are backwards compatible.
Returns an object. Woot!
OBJECT METHODS
$obj->key($string)
Get/set the Google API key for this object.
$obj->http_proxy($url)
Get/set the HTTP proxy for this object.
Returns a string.
$obj->search(\%args)
Valid arguments are :
key
string. A Google API key.
If none is provided then the key passed to the parent Net::Google object will be used.
starts_at
int. First result number to display.
Default is 0.
max_results
int. Number of results to return.
Default is 10.
lr
string or array reference. Language restrictions.
ie
string or array reference. Input encoding.
oe
string or array reference. Output encoding.
safe
boolean.
filter
boolean.
http_proxy
url. A URL for proxy-ing HTTP requests.
debug
Valid options are:
boolean
If true prints debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite to STDERR
coderef
Your own subroutine for munging the debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite.
Note that prior to version 0.60, arguments were not passed by reference. Versions >= 0.60 are backwards compatible.
Returns a Net::Google::Search object. Woot!
Returns undef if there was an error.
$obj->spelling(\%args)
Valid arguments are:
key
string. A Google API key.
If none is provided then the key passed to the parent Net::Google object will be used.
phrase
string or array reference.
http_proxy
url. A URL for proxy-ing HTTP requests.
debug
boolean
Prints debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite to STDERR
coderef
Your own subroutine for munging the debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite.
If no option is defined then the debug argument passed to the parent Net::Google object will be used.
Note that prior to version 0.60, arguments were not passed by reference. Versions >= 0.60 are backwards compatible.
Returns a Net::Google::Spelling object. Woot!
Returns undef if there was an error.
$obj->cache(\%args)
Valid arguments are :
key
String. Google API key.
If none is provided then the key passed to the parent Net::Google object will be used.
url
string
http_proxy
url. A URL for proxy-ing HTTP requests.
debug
Valid options are:
boolean
If true, prints debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite to STDERR
coderef
Your own subroutine for munging the debugging information returned by SOAP::Lite.
If no option is defined then the debug argument passed to the parent Net::Google object will be used.
Note that prior to version 0.60, arguments were not passed by reference. Versions >= 0.60 are backwards compatible.
Returns a Net::Google::Cache object. Woot!
Returns undef if there was an error.
VERSION
0.60
DATE
$Date: 2003/03/10 14:20:18 $
AUTHOR
Aaron Straup Cope
CONTRIBUTORS
Marc Hedlund <marc@precipice.org>
SEE ALSO
http://www.google.com/apis
http://aaronland.info/weblog/archive/4231
TO DO
Tickle the tests so that they will pass on systems without Test::More.
Add tests for filters.
Add some sort of functionality for managing multiple keys. Sort of like what is describe here :
http://aaronland.net/weblog/archive/4204
This will probably happen around the time Hell freezes over so if you think you can do it faster, go nuts.
BUGS
Please report all bugs via http://rt.cpan.org
LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2002-2003, Aaron Straup Cope. All Rights Reserved.
This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.