NAME

WWW::Twittervision - Perl extension to the Twittervision API

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Twittervision;

my $tv = new WWW::Twittervision();

my $result = $tv->current_status(screen_name =>'screen name');

$result = $tv->update_status(screen_name =>'screen name',
                             password => 'somepassword',
                             location => 'some place in the world');
                             
my @locations = $tv->parse_location(message => $message);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a simple perl wrapper for the API provided by twittervision.com.

METHODS

new

$tv = WWW::Twittervision->new()
$tv = WWW::Twittervision(url => $url)

Constructor for WWW::Twittervision. It returns a reference to a WWW::Twittervision object. You may also pass the url of the webservice to use. The default value is http://api.twittervision.com and is the only url, to my knowledge, that provides the services needed by this module.

current_status

This function returns the current location and the last twitter message for a given screen name (twitter handle). The returned data structure is a HASHREF. Use Data::Dumper to inspect it or look at the module tests (found in t/*) for examples.

update_status

This function update the location for a twitter screen name. It returns a HASHREF which contains the new location along with the last twitter information. Use Data::Dumper to inspect the HASHREF or look at the module tests (found in t/*) for examples.

parse_location

This function inspects a string for location patterns on the form l:<location>[:] (see also http://twittervision.com/maps/location_examples.html) The found locations are returned in an array. If none is found, the array is empty.

strip_location

This function removes location patterns from the message string and returns the result.

BUGS

Please report any bugs found or feature requests to http://code.google.com/p/www-twittervision/issues/list

SEE ALSO

Net::Twitter http://twittervision.com/maps/location_examples.html http://twittervision.com/api

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

The source code for this module is available from SVN at http://code.google.com/p/www-twittervision

AUTHOR

Per Henrik Johansen, <per.henrik.johansen@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Per Henrik Johansen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.