libwww-wikipedia-perl 2.00-1 / usr / share / perl5 / WWW / Wikipedia.pm

package WWW::Wikipedia;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp qw( croak );
use URI::Escape ();
use WWW::Wikipedia::Entry;

use base qw( LWP::UserAgent );

our $VERSION = '2.00';

use constant WIKIPEDIA_URL =>
    'http://%s.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%s&action=raw';
use constant WIKIPEDIA_RAND_URL =>
    'http://%s.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random';

=head1 NAME

WWW::Wikipedia - Automated interface to the Wikipedia 

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Wikipedia;
  my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new();

  ## search for 'perl' 
  my $result = $wiki->search( 'perl' );

  ## if the entry has some text print it out
  if ( $result->text() ) { 
      print $result->text();
  }

  ## list any related items we can look up 
  print join( "\n", $result->related() );

=head1 DESCRIPTION

WWW::Wikipedia provides an automated interface to the Wikipedia 
L<http://www.wikipedia.org>, which is a free, collaborative, online 
encyclopedia. This module allows you to search for a topic and return the 
resulting entry. It also gives you access to related topics which are also 
available via the Wikipedia for that entry.


=head1 INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

=head1 METHODS

=head2 new()

The constructor. You can pass it a two letter language code, or nothing
to let it default to 'en'.

    ## Default: English
    my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new();

    ## use the French wiki instead
    my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new( language => 'fr' );

WWW::Wikipedia is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent. If you would
like to have more control over the user agent (control timeouts, proxies ...) 
you have full access.

    ## set HTTP request timeout
    my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new();
    $wiki->timeout( 2 );


You can turn off the following of wikipedia redirect directives by passing
a false value to C<follow_redirects>.

=cut

sub new {
    my ( $class, %opts ) = @_;

    my $language = delete $opts{ language } || 'en';
    my $follow = delete $opts{ follow_redirects };
    $follow = 1 if !defined $follow;

    my $self = LWP::UserAgent->new( %opts );
    $self->agent( 'WWW::Wikipedia' );
    bless $self, ref( $class ) || $class;

    $self->language( $language );
    $self->follow_redirects( $follow );
    $self->parse_head( 0 );
    return $self;
}

=head2 language()

This allows you to get and set the language you want to use. Two letter
language codes should be used. The default is 'en'.

    my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new( language => 'es' );
    
    # Later on...
    $wiki->language( 'fr' );

=cut

sub language {
    my ( $self, $language ) = @_;
    $self->{ language } = $language if $language;
    return $self->{ language };
}

=head2 follow_redirects()

By default, wikipeda redirect directives are followed. Set this to false to
turn that off.

=cut

sub follow_redirects {
    my ( $self, $value ) = @_;
    $self->{ follow_redirects } = $value if defined $value;
    return $self->{ follow_redirects };
}

=head2 search() 

Which performs the search and returns a WWW::Wikipedia::Entry object which 
you can query further. See WWW::Wikipedia::Entry docs for more info.

    $entry = $wiki->search( 'Perl' );
    print $entry->text();

If there's a problem connecting to Wikipedia, C<undef> will be returned and the
error message will be stored in C<error()>.

=cut 

sub search {
    my ( $self, $string ) = @_;

    $self->error( undef );

    croak( "search() requires you pass in a string" ) if !defined( $string );
    
    my $enc_string = utf8::is_utf8( $string )
        ? URI::Escape::uri_escape_utf8( $string )
        : URI::Escape::uri_escape( $string );
    my $src = sprintf( WIKIPEDIA_URL, $self->language(), $enc_string );

    my $response = $self->get( $src );
    if ( $response->is_success() ) {
        my $entry = WWW::Wikipedia::Entry->new( $response->decoded_content(), $src );

        # look for a wikipedia style redirect and process if necessary
        # try to catch self-redirects
        return $self->search( $1 )
            if $self->follow_redirects && $entry->raw() =~ /^#REDIRECT \[\[([^|\]]+)/is && $1 ne $string;

        return ( $entry );
    }
    else {
        $self->error( "uhoh, WWW::Wikipedia unable to contact " . $src );
        return undef;
    }

}

=head2 random()

This method fetches a random wikipedia page.

=cut

sub random {
    my ( $self ) = @_;
    my $src = sprintf( WIKIPEDIA_RAND_URL, $self->language() );
    my $response = $self->get( $src );

    if ( $response->is_success() ) {
        # get the raw version of the current url
        my( $title ) = $response->request->uri =~ m{\.org/wiki/(.+)$};
        $src      = sprintf( WIKIPEDIA_URL, $self->language(), $title );
        $response = $self->get( $src );
        return WWW::Wikipedia::Entry->new( $response->decoded_content(), $src );
    }

    $self->error( "uhoh, WWW::Wikipedia unable to contact " . $src );
    return;
}

=head2 error()

This is a generic error accessor/mutator. You can retrieve any searching error
messages here.

=cut

sub error {
    my $self = shift;

    if ( @_ ) {
        $self->{ _ERROR } = shift;
    }

    return $self->{ _ERROR };
}

=head1 TODO

=over 4

=item * Clean up results. Strip HTML.

=item * Watch the development of Special:Export XML formatting, eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/perl

=back

=head1 SEE ALSO

=over 4

=item * LWP::UserAgent

=back

=head1 AUTHORS

Ed Summers E<lt>ehs@pobox.comE<gt>

Brian Cassidy E<lt>bricas@cpan.orgE<gt>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003-2011 by Ed Summers

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

=cut

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