NAME

WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes - Lookup phones numbers from www.pagesjaunes.fr

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes;

my $pj = new WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes;
$pj->find( activite => "Plombier", localite => "Paris" );

do {
   print $_->entry . "\n" foreach ($pj->results);
} while $pj->has_more;

DESCRIPTION

The WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes provides name, phone number and addresses of French telephone subscribers by using the http://www.pagesjaunes.fr directory.

METHODS

Two classes are used in this module, a first one (WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes) to do the fetching and parsing, and the second one and a second one (WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry) holding the entry infos.

Here are the methods for the main WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes module:

new()

The constructor accept an optional LWP::UserAgent as argument, if you want to provide your own.

find( %request )

Here are the values for the %request hash that are understood. They each have two name, the first is the french one and the second is the english one:

nom / name

Name of the person you're looking for.

activite / business

Business type of the company you're looking for. Note that if this field is filled, the module searches in the yellow pages.

localite / town

Name of the town you're searching in.

prenom / firstname

First name of the person you're looking for. It is not set if you set the 'activite' field.

departement / district

Name or number of the Département or Région you're searching in.

results()

Returns an array of WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry containing the first matches of the query.

limit($max_number_of_entries)

Set the maximum number of entries returned. Default to 50.

has_more()

If the query leads to more than a few results, the field has_more is set. You can then call the results() method again to fetch the datas.

The WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry class has six methods:

new($name, $address, $phone, $fax)

Returns a new WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry.

name

Returns the name of the entry.

address

Returns the address of the entry.

phone

Returns the phone number of the entry.

is_fax

Returns true if the phone number is a fax one, false otherwise. Note that currently, this method always returns 0.

entry($separator)

Returns the concatenation of the name and the phone number, separated by " - ". You can specify your own separator as first argument.

BUGS

The phone numbers are sometimes not correctly parsed, esp. when one entry has several phone numbers.

If you found a bug and want to report it or send a patch, you are encouraged to use the CPAN Request Tracker interface: https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Dists.html?Queue=WWW-Search-Pagesjaunes

COPYRIGHT

Please read the Publisher information of http://www.pagesjaunes.fr available at the following URL: http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi?html=commun/avertissement.html&lang=en

WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes is Copyright (C) 2002, Briac Pilpré

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Briac Pilpré <briac@cpan.org>