NAME

Net::Akismet - Perl interface to Akismet - comment and trackback spam fighter

SYNOPSIS

        my $akismet = Net::Akismet->new(
                        KEY => 'secret-baba-API-key',
                        URL => 'http://example.blog.net/',
                ) or die('Key verification failure!');

        my $verdict = $akismet->check(
                        USER_IP                         => '10.10.10.11',
                        COMMENT_USER_AGENT      => 'Mozilla/5.0',
                        COMMENT_CONTENT         => 'Run, Lola, Run, the spam will catch you!',
                        COMMENT_AUTHOR          => 'dosser',
                        COMMENT_AUTHOR_EMAIL    => 'dosser@subway.de',
                        REFERRER                => 'http://lola.home/',
                ) or die('Is the server here?');

        if ('true' eq $verdict) {

                print "I found spam. I am a spam-founder!\n";
        }

METHODS

new()

        Net::Akismet->new(PARAM => ...);

Acceptable parameters:

KEY

The API key being verified for use with the API.

URL

The front page or home URL of the instance making the request. For a blog or wiki this would be the front page.

USER_AGENT

If supplied the value is prepended to this module's identification string to become something like:

        your-killer-app/0.042 Perl-Net-Akismet/0.01 libwww-perl/5.8

Otherwise just Akismet Perl's user agent string will be sent.

SERVICE_HOST

If supplied, the host of the service API. The default is rest.akismet.com

SERVICE_VERSION

If supplied, the API version. The default is 1.1

If verification of the key was unsuccessful new() returns undef.

check()

        $akismet->check(USER_IP => ..., COMMENT_CONTENT => ..., ...)

To be or not to be... check is meant to tell you. Give it enough details about the comment and expect 'true', 'false' or undef as a result. 'true' means spam, 'false' means not spam, undef is returned on errror in submission of the comment.

Acceptable comment characteristics:

USER_IP

Required. Represents the IP address of the comment submitter.

COMMENT_USER_AGENT

Required. User agent string from the comment submitter's request.

COMMENT_CONTENT

Comment text.

REFERRER

HTTP Referer header.

PERMALINK

Permanent link to the subject of the comment.

COMMENT_TYPE

May be blank, 'comment', 'trackback', 'pingback', or a made up value like 'registration'.

COMMENT_AUTHOR

Name of submitter.

COMMENT_AUTHOR_EMAIL

Submitter e-mail.

COMMENT_AUTHOR_URL

Submitter web page.

spam()

Reports a certain comment as spam. Accepts the same arguments as check().

In case of failed submission returns undef, otherwise - a perl-known truth.

ham()

This call is intended for the marking of false positives, things that were incorrectly marked as spam. It takes identical arguments as check() and spam().

In case of failed submission returns undef, otherwise - a perl-known truth.

NOTES

Although almost all comment characteristics are optional, performance can drop dramatically if you exclude certain elements. So please, supply as much comment detail as possible.

SEE ALSO

• http://akismet.com/

• http://akismet.com/development/api/

AUTHOR

Nikolay Bachiyski <nb@nikolay.bg>

Help, modifications and bugfixes from:

• Peter Pentchev

• John Belmonte

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 by Nikolay Bachiyski

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

$Id: Akismet.pm 38 2008-06-05 17:15:12Z humperdink $