NAME

SYNOPSIS

 use Mail::Freshmeat;

 my $newsletter = Mail::Freshmeat->new(\*STDIN);

 print "Date: ", $newsletter->date(), "\n";
 print "Total entries: ", $newsletter->entries_total(), "\n";

 for my $entry ($newsletter->entries())
 {
   print "Position: ", $entry->position(), "\n";
   print "Name and version: ", $entry->name_and_version(), "\n";
 }

DESCRIPTION

Mail::Freshmeat is a subclass of Mail::Internet.

This package provides parsing of the daily e-mail newsletters which are sent out from http://freshmeat.net/ to any individual who requests them.

NEWSLETTER METHODS

• new

  This is the constructor. Pass it something that Mail::Internet will like such as a file descriptor (reference to a GLOB) or a reference to an array and you will get back a newsletter object.

• entries

  This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of entry objects for all of the entries in the newsletter.

• articles

  This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of article objects for all of the articles in the newsletter.

ENTRY METHODS

• entry_keys

  This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of all the attribute names of an entry (e.g.: position, name, license, url) in the order that they appeared.

• short_entry

  This object method will return the short description of the entry as it appeared in the newsletter headlines section (eg: Linux 2.4.9-ac15 (2.4-ac))

ARTICLE METHODS

•

article_keys

This object method will return an array or an array reference (depending on context) of all the attribute names of an article (e.g.: title, description, url) in the order that they appeared.

NEWSLETTER ACCESSORS

• ad
• ad_header
• articles_header
• articles_payload
• articles_total
• date
• entries_header
• entries_payload
• entries_total
• footer
• full
• headlines
• headlines_header
• links
• links_header

ENTRY ACCESSORS

• about
• changes
• full
• license
• name
• name_and_version
• position
• posted_by_name
• posted_by_url
• posted_on
• trove
• url
• version

ARTICLE ACCESSORS

• description
• full
• posted_by_name
• posted_by_url
• posted_on
• section
• title
• url

AUTHORS

Adam J. Foxson afoxson@pobox.com, 2002-

Adam Spiers adam@spiers.net, 1999-2000

LICENSE

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

VERSION

SEE ALSO

POD ERRORS

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