WWW::2ch - scraping of a popular bbs of Japan.

  use WWW::2ch;

  my $bbs = WWW::2ch->new(url => 'http://live19.2ch.net/ogame/',
                          cache => '/tmp/www2ch-cache');
  $bbs->load_setting;
  $bbs->load_subject;
  foreach my $dat ($bbs->subject->threads) {
      $dat->load;
      my $one = $dat->res(1);
      print $dat->title . "\n";
      print '>>1: ' . $one->body;
      foreach my $res ($dat->reslist) {
        print $res->resid . ':' . $res->date . "\n";
        print $res->body_text . "\n";
      }
      last;
  }




  my $bbs = WWW::2ch->new(url => 'http://live19.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ogame/1140947283/l50',
                          cache => '/tmp/www2ch-cache');
  my $dat = $bbs->subject->thread('1140947283');
  $dat->load;




  # dat in cash is taken out
  my $bbs = WWW::2ch->new(url => 'http://live19.2ch.net/ogame/',
			cache => '/home/ko/cpan/my/WWW-2ch/cache');
  my $dat = $bbs->recall_dat('1141300600');




  # parse dose dat from file
  my $bbs = WWW::2ch->new(url => 'http://live19.2ch.net/ogame/',
			cache => '/home/ko/cpan/my/WWW-2ch/cache');
  open my $fh, "test.dat" or return;
  my $data = join('', <$fh>);
  close($fh);
  my $dat = $bbs->parse_dat($data);

  # returns it with raw article data.
  $dat->dat;

  #plugin load
  my $bbs = WWW::2ch->new(url => 'http://example.jp/test/read.cgi/ogame/1140947283/l50',
                          cache => '/tmp/www2ch-cache',
                          plugin => 'ExampleJp');

  # plugin file load
  my $bbs = WWW::2ch->new(url => 'http://example.com/test/read.cgi/ogame/1140947283/l50',
                          cache => '/tmp/www2ch-cache',
                          plugin => '/usr/local/www-2ch/lib/ExampleCom.pm');

It is suitable for the scraping of a popular bbs of Japan.

other BBS and the news sites and other sites are also possible by the addition of the plugin for scraping.

Please take care with the flood control to an excessive access.

new(%option)

* url

set the permalink of top page.

* cache

cache directory or Cache module object

* plugin

plugin name (default Base)

http://2ch.net/, http://www.monazilla.org/, WWW::2ch::Subject, WWW::2ch::Dat, WWW::2ch::Res

Kazuhiro Osawa <ko@yappo.ne.jp>

Copyright (C) 2006 by Kazuhiro Osawa

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.