NAME
Mail::Freshmeat - parses daily newsletters from http://freshmeat.net/
SYNOPSIS
use Mail::Freshmeat;
my $newsletter = Mail::Freshmeat->new(\*STDIN);
print "Date: ", $newsletter->date(), "\n";
print "Total entries: ", $newsletter->entries_total(), "\n";
for my $entry ($newsletter->entries())
{
print "Position: ", $entry->position(), "\n";
print "Name and version: ", $entry->name_and_version(), "\n";
}
DESCRIPTION
IMPORTANT: DUE TO FRESHMEAT.NET CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF THEIR NEWSLETTERS, THE INTERFACE FOR THIS PACKAGE HAS CHANGED SINCE Mail::Freshmeat 0.94.
Mail::Freshmeat is a subclass of Mail::Internet.
This package provides parsing of the daily e-mail newsletters which are sent out from http://freshmeat.net/ to any individual who requests them.
NEWSLETTER METHODS
new
This is the constructor. Pass it something that Mail::Internet will like such as a file descriptor (reference to a GLOB) or a reference to an array and you will get back a newsletter object.
entries
This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of entry objects for all of the entries in the newsletter.
articles
This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of article objects for all of the articles in the newsletter.
ENTRY METHODS
entry_keys
This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of all the attribute names of an entry (e.g.: position, name, license, url) in the order that they appeared.
short_entry
This object method will return the short description of the entry as it appeared in the newsletter headlines section (eg: Linux 2.4.9-ac15 (2.4-ac))
ARTICLE METHODS
article_keys
This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of all the attribute names of an article (e.g.: title, description, url) in the order that they appeared.
NEWSLETTER ACCESSORS
ad
ad_header
articles_header
articles_payload
articles_total
date
entries_header
entries_payload
entries_total
footer
full
headlines
headlines_header
links
links_header
ENTRY ACCESSORS
about
changes
full
license
name
name_and_version
position
posted_by_name
posted_by_url
posted_on
trove
url
version
ARTICLE ACCESSORS
description
full
posted_by_name
posted_by_url
posted_on
section
title
url
AUTHORS
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
VERSION
This is release 1.20.
SEE ALSO
perl(1).
2 POD Errors
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