WWW::Search::Jobserve - backend for searching www.jobserve.com

    use WWW::Search;
    my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Jobserve');
    my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("(Fast Food Operative) and PERL");
    $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { job_category => 'it' });
    while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
      { 
        print $oResult->url, "\n"; 
        print $oResult->title, "\n";
        print $oResult->description, "\n";
      }

    			  	      

This class is a Jobserve specialisation of WWW::Search. It handles making, retrieving and interpreting Jobserve searches http://www.jobserve.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

This class can be used to query both the UK and Australian Jobserve sites, see below.

The search will terminate unless job_category is set in the native_query options.

The results are ordered Best Match first (unless 'job_order' => 'DateTime' is specified).

Parameters Available:

job_category job_type job_lookahead job_order jobserve_site

Job Category

Job Categories must be specified by setting job_category in the native_query options:

  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { job_category => 'it' });

The value of this is simply the prefix you see jobserve insert into the url once you've clicked beyond the front page. E.g.

  http://www.it.jobserve.com  		{ job_category => 'it' }
  http://www.engineering.jobserve.com   { job_category => 'engineering' }

etc.

Job Type

Job Types are (Any|Contract|Permanent). To specifically search for one contract type, set 'job_type' => (*|C|P) to the query options:

  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { job_type => 'C',  job_category => 'it' } );

The search defaults to All

Days Ahead

Choices of how many days to look ahead are (5|4|3|2|1|0). To specifically search for x working days ahead, set 'job_lookahead' => (5|4|3|2|1|0) to the query options:

  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { job_lookahead => '2', job_category => 'it' } );

The search defaults to 5

Result Order

Choices of how to order results are (Best Match|Latest Job). To alter the result order, set 'job_order' => (Rank|DateTime) to the query options:

  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { job_order => 'DateTime', job_category => 'it' } );

The search defaults to Best Match.

Different Jobserve Sites

There are currently two Jobserve websites supported by this module namely United Kingdom and Australia. The search will default to the UK site unless the parameter, 'jobserve_site' => (uk|au) is set in the query options:

  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { jobserve_site => 'au', job_category => 'it' } );

The search defaults to uk

Invoke all parameters like so:

    $oSearch->native_query($sQuery, { job_category  => 'it', 
    			  	      job_type 	    => 'C',
    			  	      job_lookahead => '2',
    			  	      job_order     => 'DateTime',
    			  	      jobserve_site => 'au', } );

To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

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WWW::Search::Jobserve was written by Andy Pritchard (pilchkinstein@hotmail.com).

WWW::Search::Jobserve is maintained by Andy Pritchard

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Altered parse_tree for cases where another href link is inserted before the job title and link

Altered POD and added a README

Released to the public.