NAME

Net::Parliament - Scrape data from parl.gc.ca

SYNOPSIS

This module will fetch HTML and XML from parl.gc.ca, and then parse it into hashrefs.

use Net::Parliament;

my $parl = Net::Parliament->new(
    parliament => 40,
    session    => 2,
);
my $members = $parl->members();

METHODS

members(%opts)

This method returns an arrayref containing a hashref for each member of parliament. Fetching the data is cached via Net::Parliament::UserAgent.

Options:

extended

If set to true, extra data from the member's home page will be fetched. This takes much longer.

limit

Only return this number of results. Useful for testing.

bills()

This method returns an arrayref containing a hashref for each Government Bill raised in parliament.

bill_votes( $bill_name )

This method returns an arrayref containing a hashref for each vote on the specified Bill.

member_votes( $member_id )

This method returns an arrayref containing a hashref for each vote made by the specified member.

AUTHOR

Luke Closs, <cpan at 5thplane.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-net-parliament at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Net-Parliament. 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 Net::Parliament

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to parl.gc.ca for the parts of their site in XML format.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Luke Closs, all rights reserved.

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