NAME

shopbot.pl - Shopping Agent

SYNOPSIS

% shopbot.pl version

% shopbot.pl list

% shopbot.pl list_paths

% shopbot.pl newdriver   COM::Shhhhhh

% shopbot.pl driver      COM::Shhhhhh

% shopbot.pl analyze     URL

% shopbot.pl action      query   COM::Shhhhhh

DESCRIPTION

It is a script for you to list existent shopbot drivers, generate driver's template, or go grab price info, etc.

USAGE

Print version of shopbot.pl

% shopbot.pl version

List drivers in your library paths

% shopbot.pl list

Or use

% shopbot.pl list_paths

It lists full paths of existent drivers'

Generate driver template

% shopbot.pl newdriver driver_name [ dest_dir ]

It creates a driver template, and then you can edit the newborn file to make a new driver. By default, it creates the new driver at current directory. Please specify another destination directory if you need it to be somewhere else.

Example,

% shopbot.pl newdriver COM::Shhhhhh ~/.shopbot_drivers/

It creates a driver template WWW/ShopBot/COM/Shhhhhh.pm in your home's .shopbot_drivers

List driver's information

% shopbot.pl driver driver_name

Example:

% shopbot.pl driver COM::Shhhhhh

Analyze a URL

It fetches the content of the given URL and dumps related information parsed from it using WWW::Mechanize.

% shopbot.pl analyze http://shhhhhhh.com/

It dumps result to STDOUT.

ACTION!

Of course, you can use it to get products' data, and obtained data will be dumped to STDOUT with Data::Dumper.

% shopbot.pl action query drivers