Net::Meerkat Perl interface to O'ReillyNet's Meerkat
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Perl interface to O'ReillyNet's Meerkat Net::Meerkat is a Perl interface to O'ReillyNet's Meerkat.SYNOPSIS use Net::Meerkat; my $m = Net::Meerkat->new('flavor' => 'rss'); my $data = $m->get; # Shortcut usage: use XML::RSS; my $rss = XML::RSS->new; $rss->parse(Net::Meerkat->rss);Net::Meerkat is a Perl interface to O'ReillyNet's Meerkat web service. It is little more than a straightforward front-end for creating Meerkat URLs and fetching the content from http://meerkat.oreillynet.com/; it doesn't provide data handling methods, since Meerkat makes its data in many forms, and there are already convenient modules for handling many of these forms, such as RSS. See http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/rss/2000/05/09/meerkat_api.html for more information on the Meerkat Web API.Typical usage: my $m = Net::Meerkat->new(); $m->search("perl apache"); $m->time("7DAY"); $m->flavor('rss'); my $data = $m->get();Net::Meerkat's class method shortcuts allow the same data to be retrieved as follows: my $data = Net::Meerkat->rss(search => "perl apache", time => "1 week"); Requirements: · Perl

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