NAME
WWW::Freshmeat - automates searches on Freshmeat.net
VERSION
Version 0.01
SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Freshmeat;
my $fm = new WWW::Freshmeat;
my $project = $fm->retrieve_project('project_id');
foreach ( @projects, $project ) {
print $_->name(), "\n";
print $_->url(), "\n";
print $_->version(), "\n";
print $_->description(), "\n";
}
DESCRIPTION
WWW::Freshmeat
derives from LWP::UserAgent
, so it accepts all the methods that LWP::UserAgent
does, notably timeout
, useragent
, env_proxy
...
Methods
- retrieve_project STRING
-
Query the freshmeat.net site for the project STRING (should be the Freshmeat ID of the requested project) and returns a
WWW::Freshmeat::Project
object or dies if the project entry cannot be found.
WWW::Freshmeat::Project methods
The WWW::Freshmeat::Project
object provides some of the fields from the freshmeat.net entry through the following methods
- url_project_page
- url_homepage
- projectname_full
- desc_short
- desc_full
- license
- www_freshmeat
Additionnally, it provides the following "higher-level" methods:
- name
- description
-
Return either
projectname_full
(respectivelydesc_full
) orprojectname_short
(respectivelydesc_short
) if the former is empty. - version
-
Returns the version of the latest release.
- url
-
url_homepage
returns a freshmeat.net URL that redirects to the actual project's home page. This url() method tries to follow the redirection and returns the actual homepage URL if it can be found, or the URL to the freshmeat.net entry for the project.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Cedric Bouvier, <cbouvi at cpan.org>
BUGS
This is very alpha code. It does not even support searching!
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-freshmeat at rt.cpan.org
, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Freshmeat. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc WWW::Freshmeat
You can also look for information at:
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
CPAN Ratings
RT: CPAN's request tracker
Search CPAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2006 Cedric Bouvier, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.