NAME
WWW::Google::News - Access to Google's News Service (Not Usenet)
SYNOPSIS
use WWW:Google::News qw(get_news);
my $result = get_news();DESCRIPTION
This module provides one method get_news() which scren scrapes Google News and returns a data structure similar to ...
{
'Top Stories' =>
[
{
'url' => 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9707-2002Nov19.html',
'headline' => 'Amendment to Homeland Security Bill Defeated'
},
{
'url' => 'http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_712444.html',
'headline' => 'US and UN at odds as Iraq promises to meet deadline'
}
],
'Entertainment' =>
[
{
'url' => 'http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/DailyNews/Coburn021119.html',
'headline' => 'James Coburn Dies'
},
{
'url' => 'http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/15/entertainment/main529532.shtml',
'headline' => '007s On Parade At \'Die\' Premiere'
}
]
}Which is a reference to a hash keyed on News Section, which points to an array of hashes keyed on URL and Headline.
It also provides a method called get_news_greg_style() which returns the same data, only using a hash keyed on story number instead of the array described in the above.
TODO
* Implement an example RSS feed.
* Seek out a good psychologist so we can work through my obsession with hashes.
AUTHOR
Greg McCarroll <greg@mccarroll.demon.co.uk>
KUDOS
Leon Brocard for pulling me up on my obsessive compulsion to use hashes. Anyone who fancies implementing an RSS feed using this so I can put it in an examples directory.