NAME

WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard - search www.TheITJobBoard.co.uk

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard;
use Data::Dumper;
my $oSearch = WWW::Search->new('TheITJobBoard', _debug=>undef);
$oSearch->native_query(
	WWW::Search::escape_query("perl"),
	{
		jobtype => 0,
	}
);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result){
	warn Dumper $oResultr;
}

DESCRIPTION

Gets jobs from the UK IT job site, The IT Job Board.

A sub-class of WWW::Search that uses HTML::TokeParser to return WWW::SearchResult objects for each result found when querying www.theitjobboard.co.uk.

At the time of writing, valid options for The IT Job Board are as follows:

keywords

THe keywords your target job description should contain. Default is perl, of course.

jobtype

Valid values are: 1 for contract (our default), 2 for permenant, and 0 for either.

days

The age of the posting, in days, according to the site's records. A value of 0 represents any age. Our default is 1.

orderby

Not especially relevant for us: valid values are 1 to order by relevance to the keywords; 2 to order by date posted; 3 orders by salary; 4 puts non-agency jobs first, which is the default.

locations[]

Ugly variable name. Default is to return all jobs, regardless. Valid values are: undef to return all jobs; 180 for UK, 124 for Netherlands, 93 for Germany, 69 for France, 308 for Switzerland, 170 for Republic Of Ireland, 3 for Austria, 301 for 'the rest Of the world,' 254 for 'other European.'

currpage

The number of the page to start at, indexed from 1.

lang

Defaults to en for English, but you could try other two-letter ISO codes.

DEPENDENCIES

WWW::Search, HTML::TokeParser.

BUGS

Frankly, this is a quick first-stab at WWW::Search sub-classing and this module. It passes the basic test, which is enough for my needs today, and as far as I can see, it conforms with WWW:Search requirements. But please send bug reports via CPAN.

METHOD native_setup_search

Sets up default search parameters. NOTE that the first argument is the same as the option keywords: see DESCRIPTION, above.

METHOD native_retrieve_some

Retrieve some results. Returns the number of results found. Will make as many HTTP requests as necessary to get to the maximum results you specify.

SEE ALSO

This module was composed after reading WWW::Search, WWW::Search::Yahoo, WWW::Search::Yahoo::Advanced and WWW::Search::Jobserve. If this module is useful to you, check out the latter too.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) Lee Goddard, 2006. Some Rights Reserved.

LICENCE

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License. =end html

cpanm WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard