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NAME

WWW::GoKGS::Scraper - Abstract base class for KGS scrapers

SYNOPSIS

  use parent 'WWW::GoKGS::Scraper';
  use URI;
  use Web::Scraper;

  sub _build_base_uri {
      URI->new('http://www.gokgs.com/...');
  }

  sub _build_scraper {
      my $self = shift;

      scraper {
          ...
      };
  }

DESCRIPTION

This module is an abstract base class for KGS scrapers. KGS scrapers must inherit from this class, and also implement two methods; _build_base_uri and _build_scraper. _build_base_uri must return a URI object which represents a resource on KGS. _build_scraper must return an Web::Scraper object which can scrape the resource. Both of them are called as a method on the object with no parameters.

ATTRIBUTES

$URI = $scraper->base_uri

Returns a URI object which represents a resource on KGS. This attribute is read-only.

$UserAgent = $scraper->user_agent
$scraper->user_agent( LWP::UserAgent->new(...) )

Can be used to get or set an LWP::UserAgent object which is used to GET the requested resource. Defaults to the LWP::UserAgent object shared by Web::Scraper users ($Web::Scraper::UserAgent).

METHODS

@filters = $scraper->get_filter( $key )

Returns all the filters associated with $key.

$scraper->add_filter( $key => $filter )
$scraper->add_filter( $k1 => $f1, $k2 => $f2, ... )

Pushes $filter onto the filter stack specified by $key. You can also push multiple filters in one add_filter call. $filter can be either a filter class name or a subref. See Web::Scraper::Filter for details.

$filtered_value = $scraper->run_filter( $key, $value )

Executes all the filters associated with $key on $value.

$scraper->scrape( URI->new(...) )
$scraper->scrape( HTTP::Response->new(...) )
$scraper->scrape( $html[, $base_uri] )
$scraper->scrape( \$html[, $base_uri] )

Given arguments are passed to the scrape method of an Web::Scraper object built by the _build_scraper method.

$scraper->query( $k1 => $v1, $k2 => $v2, ... )

Given key-value pairs of query parameters, constructs a URI object which consists of base_uri and the query parameters, then pass the URI to the scrape method.

SEE ALSO

WWW::GoKGS

AUTHOR

Ryo Anazawa (anazawa@cpan.org)

LICENSE

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