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NAME

WebService::Bluga::Webthumb - fetch website thumbnails via webthumb.bluga.net

SYNOPSIS

use WebService::Bluga::Webthumb;
my $wt = WebService::Bluga::Webthumb->new(
    user    => $user_id,
    api_key => $api_key,
    size    => $size,  # small, medium1, medium2, large (default: medium)
    cache   => $cache_days, # optional - default 14
);

# get a thumbnail URL using the default settings
my $thumb_url = wt->thumb_url($url);

# Get a thumbnail URL overriding some settings:
my $thumb_url = $wt->thumb_url($url, { size => 'large' });

Class methods

new

Create a new WebService::Bluga::Webthumb object. Takes the following params:

user

Your webthumb user ID, available from your http://webthumb.bluga.net/user page.

api_key

Your webthumb API key. also available from your user page. (This is used to construct the hash of the thumbnail URL, but not sent directly.)

size

The size of the thumbnail to generate. Size can be:

  • small - 80x60

  • medium - 160x120

  • medium2 - 320x240

  • large - 640x480

cache

How many days a generated thumbnail can be cached on the webthumb servers before a fresh one is generated. Generating a thumbnail uses a credit whereas serving up a cached one uses a fraction of a credit, so don't set this too low.

If not specified, defaults to 14 days.

Instance methods

easy_thumb

Given an URL, and optionally size / cache params to override those from the object, returns an URL to the thumbnail, to use in an IMG tag.

AUTHOR

David Precious, <davidp at preshweb.co.uk>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-webservice-bluga-webthumb at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WebService-Bluga-Webthumb. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SEE ALSO

See the API documentation at http://webthumb.bluga.net/api-easythumb

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc WebService::Bluga::Webthumb

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011 David Precious.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.