NAME

WWW::Search::UrbanDictionary - Search the Urban Dictionary via SOAP

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;

  my $key = 'abcdefghijklmnop1234567890';

  my $search = WWW::Search->new('UrbanDictionary', key => $key);

  $search->native_query('emo');

  while (my $result = $search->next_result() ) {
    print $result->{'word'} . ' - ' . $result->{'definition'} . "\n";
    print $result->{'author'}, "\n";
    print $result->{'example'}, "\n";
    print $result->url, "\n";
    print "\n";
  }

DESCRIPTION

This class is an Urban Dictionary specialization of WWW::Search. It handles searching Urban Dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/ using its new SOAP API http://api.urbandictionary.com/.

All interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

Note that you must register for an API account and have a valid Urban Dictionary API license key before using this module.

This module reports errors via croak().

This module uses SOAP::Life to do all the dirty work.

METHODS

native_retrieve_some

native_setup_search

AUTHOR

Nick Gerakines <nick@socklabs.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005, Nick Gerakines

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