NAME

WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes - Lookup phones numbers from www.pagesjaunes.fr

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes;

     my $pj = new WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes;
     $pj->find( activite => "Plombier", localite => "Paris" );
     {
        print $->entry . "\n" foreach ($pj->results);
        redo if $pj->hasmore;
     }

DESCRIPTION

The WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes provides name, phone number and addresses of French telephone subscribers by using the <http://www.pagesjaunes.fr> directory.

METHODS

Two classes are used in this module, a first one (WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes) to do the fetching and parsing, and the second one and a second one (WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry) holding the entry infos.

Here are the methods for the main WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes module:

new()

        The constructor accept an optional LWP::UserAgent as argument, if
        you want to provide your own.

find( %request )

        Here are the values for the %request hash that are understood. They
        each have two name, the first is the french one and the second is
        the english one:

        nom / name
            Name of the person you're looking for.

        activite / business
            Business type of the company you're looking for. Note that if
            this field is filled, the module searches in the yellow pages.

        localite / town
            Name of the town you're searching in.

        prenom / firstname
            First name of the person you're looking for. It is not set if
            you set the 'activite' field.

        departement / district
            Name or number of the Département or Région you're searching in.

results()

        Returns an array of WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry containing the
        first matches of the query.

limit($max_number_of_entries)

Set the maximum number of entries returned. Default to 50.

has_more()

        If the query leads to more than a few results, the field has_more is
        set. You can then call the results() method again to fetch the
        datas.

The WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry class has six methods:

new($name, $address, $phone, $fax)

Returns a new WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes::Entry.

name

Returns the name of the entry.

address

Returns the address of the entry.

phone

Returns the phone number of the entry.

is_fax

        Returns true if the phone number is a fax one, false otherwise. Note
        that currently, this method always returns 0.

entry

        Returns the concatenation of the name and the phone number,
        separated by " - ".

BUGS

The phone numbers are sometimes not correctly parsed, esp. when one entry has several phone numbers.

Names are sometimes truncated.

If you found a bug and want to report it or send a patch, you are encouraged to use the CPAN Request Tracker interface: <https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Dists.html?Queue=WWW-Search-Pagesjaunes>

COPYRIGHT

Please read the Publisher information of <http://www.pagesjaunes.fr> available at the following URL:
<http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi?html=commun/avertissement.html&lang=en>

WWW::Search::Pagesjaunes is Copyright (C) 2002, Briac Pilpré

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

AUTHOR

Briac Pilpré briac@cpan.org