NAME

WWW::TinySong - Get free music links using TinySong

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::TinySong;

my $ts = WWW::TinySong->new;
$ts->timeout(10);
$ts->env_proxy;

for($ts->song_search("never gonna give you up")) {
    printf("%s", $_->{song});
    printf(" by %s", $_->{artist}) if $_->{artist};
    printf(" on %s", $_->{album}) if $_->{album};
    printf(" <%s>\n", $_->{url});
}

DESCRIPTION

TinySong is a web app that can be queried for a song and returns a tiny URL, allowing you to listen to the song for free online and share it with friends. WWW::TinySong is a Perl interface to this service, allowing you to programmatically search its underlying database.

CONSTRUCTORS

WWW::TinySong subclasses LWP::UserAgent, so you can use the same constructors. If you're lazy, just play with the example given in the "SYNOPSIS": that should be sufficient to get started with this module.

METHODS

WWW::TinySong implements one more method in addition to the ones supported by LWP::UserAgent.

song_search ( QUERY_STRING [, LIMIT ] )

Searches the TinySong database for QUERY_STRING, giving up to LIMIT results. LIMIT defaults to 10 if unspecified. Returns an array in list context and an arrayref in scalar context. Return elements are hashrefs with keys qw(album artist song url). Their values will be the empty string if not given by the website. Here's a quick script to demonstrate:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::TinySong;
use Data::Dumper;
 
print Dumper(WWW::TinySong->new->song_search("a hard day's night", 3));

...and its output on my system at the time of this writing:

$VAR1 = {
          'album' => 'Golden Beatles',
          'artist' => 'The Beatles',
          'song' => 'A Hard Day\'s Night',
          'url' => 'http://tinysong.com/2Cqe'
        };
$VAR2 = {
          'album' => '',
          'artist' => 'The Beatles',
          'song' => 'A Hard Day\'s Night',
          'url' => 'http://tinysong.com/2BI5'
        };
$VAR3 = {
          'album' => 'The Beatles 1',
          'artist' => 'The Beatles',
          'song' => 'A Hard Day\'s Night',
          'url' => 'http://tinysong.com/2Cqi'
        };

SEE ALSO

http://tinysong.com/, LWP::UserAgent

BUGS

Please report them.

AUTHOR

Miorel-Lucian Palii, <mlpalii@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Miorel-Lucian Palii

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.