NAME

WWW::Freelancer - Provides access to Freelancer.com API

VERSION

This document describes WWW::Freelancer version 0.0.1

SYNOPSIS

    use WWW::Freelancer;

    my $freelancer = WWW::Freelancer->new();
    my $project    = $freelancer->get_project(1000);
    my $user       = $freelancer->get_user('alanhaggai');

    print 'Project ID: ',   $project->get_id(),   "\n";
    print 'Project Name: ', $project->get_name(), "\n";
    print 'Project URL: ',  $project->get_url(),  "\n";
    print 'User ID: ',      $user->get_id(),      "\n";

DESCRIPTION

This module provides access to Freelancer.com API 1.0 (http://apidocs.getafreelancer.com/index.html).

INTERFACE

new()

Returns a new Freelancer object.

get_project( id )

Accepts id of a project and returns a project object.

get_user( id | username )

Returns a user object corresponding to the provided id or username.

search_project( HASH )

Searches for a project and returns an array of project objects. Accepts a HASH with the following keys:

'keyword'

Search keyword.

'owner'

Username of ID of project owner.

'winner'

Username of ID of project winner.

'jobs'

Names of job categories from the available list on Freelancer.com (Perl, XML, AJAX, et cetera.). This key accepts an array reference.

For example:

    'jobs' => [
                  'Perl',
                  'XML',
                  'AJAX',
              ]

'featured'

If 1, only featured projects, else if 0, only non-featured projects.

'trial'

If 1, only trial projects, else if 0, only non-trial projects

'for_gold_members'

If 1, only 'for gold members' projects, else if 0, only 'for non-gold members' projects.

'nonpublic'

If 1, only nonpublic projects, else if 0, only public projects.

'minimum_budget'

Only projects with budget higher or equal to minimum_budget.

'maximum_budget'

Only projects with budget lower or equal to maximum_budget.

'bidding_ends'

Only projects ending sooner than bidding_ends days.

'order'

Order projects in the result output. Accepts a hash reference with keys and values corresponding to order criteria:

'id'

Order by project ID.

'submitdate'

Order by date when project was added (default).

'state'

Order by state of project. Active/open projects will be listed first, frozen projects then, and at last closed projects.

'bid_count'

Order by number of bids.

'bid_average'

Order by average bid.

'bid_enddate'

Order by bidding end time.

'buyer'

Order by buyer's username.

'budget'

Order by budget.

'relevance'

Order by relevance of search by keyword. This criterion should be used with the parameter keyword.

'random'

Order randomly.

'order_direction'

Direction of sorting. If the parameter is equal to asc, results are ordered in ascending way, otherwise, descending (desc).

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

WWW::Freelancer requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

LWP::UserAgent

Not in CORE

JSON

Not in CORE

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-freelancer@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Alan Haggai Alavi <haggai@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

• WWW::Freelancer::Project

• WWW::Freelancer::User

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010, Alan Haggai Alavi <haggai@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

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

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