NAME

WWW::Google::News - Access to Google's News Service (Not Usenet)

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW:Google::News qw(get_news);
  my $result = get_news();

DESCRIPTION

This module provides one method get_news() which scren scrapes Google News and returns a data structure similar to ...

  {
    'Top Stories' =>
              [
               {
                 'url' => 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9707-2002Nov19.html',
                 'headline' => 'Amendment to Homeland Security Bill Defeated'
               },
               {
                 'url' => 'http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_712444.html',
                 'headline' => 'US and UN at odds as Iraq promises to meet deadline'
               }
              ],
    'Entertainment' =>
             [
              {
                'url' => 'http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/DailyNews/Coburn021119.html',
                'headline' => 'James Coburn Dies'
              },
              {
                'url' => 'http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/15/entertainment/main529532.shtml',
                'headline' => '007s On Parade At \'Die\' Premiere'
              }
             ]
   }

Which is a reference to a hash keyed on News Section, which points to an array of hashes keyed on URL and Headline.

It also provides a method called get_news_greg_style() which returns the same data, only using a hash keyed on story number instead of the array described in the above.

TODO

* Implement an example RSS feed.

* Seek out a good psychologist so we can work through my obsession with hashes.

AUTHOR

Greg McCarroll <greg@mccarroll.demon.co.uk>

KUDOS

Darren Chamberlain for rss_alternate.pl

Leon Brocard for pulling me up on my obsessive compulsion to use hashes.

SEE ALSO

http://http://news.google.com/news/gnmainlite.html