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RSS-From-Forum-vBulletin-0.04
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NAME

RSS::From::Forum::vBulletin - Get RSS page by parsing vBulletin forum display page

VERSION

version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

# See get-rss-from-forum for command-line usage

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

None are exported, but they are exportable.

get_rss_from_forum(%args) -> [STATUS_CODE, ERR_MSG, RESULT]

Generate an RSS page by parsing vBulletin forum display page.

Many vBulletin forums do not turn on RSS feeds. This function parses vBulletin forum display page and create a simple RSS page so you can subscribe to it using RSS.

Returns a 3-element arrayref. STATUS_CODE is 200 on success, or an error code between 3xx-5xx (just like in HTTP). ERR_MSG is a string containing error message, RESULT is the actual result.

Arguments (* denotes required arguments):

  • url* => str

    Forum URL (the forum display page).

    Usually it's of the form: http://host/path/forumdisplay.php?f=XXX

  • ua => obj

    Supply a custom LWP::UserAgent object.

    If supplied, will be used instead of the default LWP::UserAgent object.

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Steven Haryanto.

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