eBay::API::Simple::HTML - Support for grabbing an HTML page via API call

  my $call = eBay::API::Simple::HTML->new();
  $call->execute( 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page', { a => 'b' } );

  if ( $call->has_error() ) {
     die "Call Failed:" . $call->errors_as_string();
  }

  # getters for the response DOM or Hash
  my $dom  = $call->response_dom();
  my $hash = $call->response_hash();

  # collect all h2 nodes
  my @h2 = $dom->getElementsByTagName('h2');

  foreach my $n ( @h2 ) {
    print $n->findvalue('text()') . "\n";
  }

  my $call = ebay::API::Simple::HTML->new();

  $call->execute( 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page', { a => 'b' } );

This method will construct the API request based on the $verb and the $call_data and then post the request to the web service endpoint.

$url (required)

URL for page to fetch

%$args (optional)

The supplied args will be encoded and appended to the URL

Custom response_hash method, uses the output from LibXML to generate the hash instead of the raw response body.

Custom response_dom method, provides a more relaxed parsing to better handle HTML.

Accessor for the LWP::UserAgent request agent

Accessor for the HTTP::Request request object

Accessor for the complete request body from the HTTP::Request object

Accessor for the HTTP response body content

Accessor for the HTTP::Request response object

Helper for LibXML that retrieves node content

Accessor to the hashref of errors

Returns true if the call contains errors

Returns a string of API errors if there are any.

This method supplies the XML body for the web service request

This methods supplies the headers for the HTML API call

This method creates the request object and returns to the parent class

Tim Keefer <tim@timkeefer.com>

Tim Keefer 2009