HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA - simple web user agent class
use aliased 'HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA'; my $response = UA->get($url); die unless $response->{success}; print $response->{decoded_content};
This is a simple wrapper around HTTP::Tiny and LWP::UserAgent to smooth out the API differences between them. It only supports bog standard get($url) requests.
get($url)
If LWP::UserAgent is already in memory, this module will use that.
If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, then this module will use HTTP::Tiny (or direct filesystem access for "file://" URLs).
If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, and you attempt to request a URL that HTTP::Tiny cannot handle (e.g. an "ftp://" URL), then this module will load LWP::UserAgent and die if it cannot be loaded (e.g. is not installed).
HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA is used by the parse_file method of HTML::HTML5::Parser.
parse_file
get($url, $ua)
Gets the URL and returns a hashref similar to HTTP::Tiny's hashrefs, but with an additional decoded_content key, which contains the response body, decoded into a Perl character string (not a byte string).
decoded_content
If $ua is given (it's optional), then this user agent will be used to perform the actual request. Must be undef or an LWP::UserAgent object (or a subclass) or an HTTP::Tiny object (or a subclass).
$HTML::HTML5::Parser::NO_LWP
If true, avoids using LWP::UserAgent.
LWP::UserAgent is a good piece of software but it has a dependency on HTML::Parser. HTML::Parser is only used to provide one fairly esoteric feature, which this package doesn't make use of. (It's the parse_head option.)
parse_head
Because of that, I don't especially want HTML::HTML5::Parser to have a dependency on LWP::UserAgent. Hence this module.
HTML::HTML5::Parser.
Toby Inkster, <tobyink@cpan.org>
Copyright (C) 2012 by Toby Inkster
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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To install HTML::HTML5::Parser, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::HTML5::Parser
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::HTML5::Parser
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