NAME

WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Yahoo_Driver - Search driver for Yahoo Books online catalog.

SYNOPSIS

See parent class documentation (WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver)

DESCRIPTION

Searches for book information from the Yahoo Books online catalog.

METHODS

search()

Creates a query string, then passes the appropriate form fields to the Yahoo Books server.

The returned page should be the correct catalog page for that ISBN. If not the function returns zero and allows the next driver in the chain to have a go. If a valid page is returned, the following fields are returned via the book hash:

  isbn
  isbn13 (if available)
  title
  author
  pubdate
  publisher
  book_link
  image_link
  thumb_link (same as image_link)

The book_link and image_link refer back to the Yahoo Books website.

REQUIRES

Requires the following modules be installed:

WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver, WWW::Mechanize, Template::Extract

SEE ALSO

WWW::Scraper::ISBN, WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Record, WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver

AUTHOR

  Barbie, <barbie@cpan.org>
  Miss Barbell Productions, <http://www.missbarbell.co.uk/>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

  Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Barbie for Miss Barbell Productions

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

The full text of the licenses can be found in the Artistic file included with this module, or in perlartistic as part of Perl installation, in the 5.8.1 release or later.