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NAME

WebService::Pixabay - Perl 5 interface to Pixabay API.

VERSION

version 2.1.1

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;

use WebService::Pixabay;
use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';

my $pix = WebService::Pixabay->new(api_key => 'secret');

# default searches
my $img1 = $pix->image_search;
my $vid1 = $pix->video_search;

# print JSON structure using Data::Dumper's 'Dumper'
print Dumper($img1) . "\n";
print Dumper($vid1) . "\n";

###################################################
# The parameters of the method have the same name #
# and default values as in Pixabay API docs       #
###################################################

# example custom image search and printing
my $cust_img = $pix->image_search(
    q => 'cats dog',
    lang => 'es',
    response_group => 'high_resolution',
    image_type => 'illustration',
    category => 'animals',
    safesearch => 'true',
    order => 'latest',
    page => 2,
    per_page => 5,
    pretty => 'true'
);

print Dumper($cust_img) . "\n";

# -or with video_search-

# example custom video search and printing
my $cust_vid = $pix->video_search(
    q => 'tree',
    lang => 'en',
    pretty => 'false',
    page => 3,
    order => 'popular'
);

print Dumper($cust_vid) . "\n";

# Handling specific hashes and arrays of values from the image_search JSON
# example retrieving webformatURL from each arrays
my @urls = undef;

foreach my $url (@{$cust_img->{hits}}) {

    # now has link of photo urls (non-preview photos)
    push(@urls, $url->{webformatURL});      
}

print $urls[3] . "\n"; # image URL in the fourth row

# Getting a specific single hash or array value from video_search JSON
print $cust_vid->{hits}[0]{medium}{url} . "\n";

SEE ALSO

Pixabay API documentations

Moo

Function::Parameters

Test::More

WebService::Client

LWP::Online

Data::Printer

AUTHOR

faraco <skelic3@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2017 by faraco.

This is free software, licensed under:

The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007