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/ WWW::Arbeitsagentur::Search

NAME

WWW::Arbeitsagentur::Search - Search for Jobs & Applicants via Arbeitsagentur.de

SYNOPSIS


            

              
              
package MySearch;
use WWW::Arbeitsagentur::Search;
my $search = MySearch->new('job'  => 'Perl Job',
                    'user' => 'username@arbeitsagentur'
                    'pw'   => 'mypassword@arbeitsagentur',
                    'mech' => WWW::Mechanize->new(),
                   );
$search->search_my_way;
sub search_my_way{
    my $self = shift;
    $self->connect();
    # do other stuff
    $self->collect_result_pages;
    return $self->count_results;
}

DESCRIPTION

This module is the base class for all search classes. It inherits from WWW::Arbeitsagentur and provides methods to collect search results and save them to disk.

METHODS

$search->save_results()

Saves the result pages in the directory determined by $search->path. Returns the number of errors(!).


            

              
              
Usage:
# After successful search:
$search->collect_result_pages();
$search->path( 'download/' );        # where to save the files.
$search->save_results();

$search->save_page( $page_id )

Save a page from the result list to $search->path.

Parameter: index number of the page to be saved from array $self->results.

Return 0 on failure, 1 on success.


            

              
              
Usage:
# primitive filtering:
my $page = $search->result(5);       
if ($page =~ m/Perl Coder/){
        $search->save_page(5);
}

$search->collect_result_pages()

If our search was successful, this method collects all jobs / applicants found on the result pages. Data is stored in the array $search->results.

Returns the number of pages found.

$search->select_job()

Selects a job description in a search form on http://www.arbeitsargentur.de.


            

              
              
Usage:
# After navigating the mech to the search form:
$search->beruf('Perl Coder');
$search->select_job();

Returns 1 if a matching job-description was found. Returns 0 on failure.

SEE ALSO

http://arbeitssuche.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

Ingo Wiarda dewarim@users.sourceforce.net

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This module is based upon http://arbeitssuche.sourceforge.net, written by Ingo Wiarda and Stefan Rother.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Ingo Wiarda

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