Ham::Scrape - Perl extension for scraping Amateur Radio callsign info and real-time positional information from the Internet. This module scrapes the information from three web sites (QRZ, FindU and APRSWorld), and supports printing of the key fields to console to file as raw ASCII or formatted in an XML document structure.
use Ham::Scraper;
# Retreive QRZ information for callsign
my %qrz = Ham::Scraper::QRZ($callsign);
my $name = $qrz{Name};
my $location = $qrz{CityStateZip};
my $timeZone = $qrz{TimeZone};
my $gmtOffset = $qrz{GMTOffset};
my $grid = $qrz{Grid};
# Use name, location, grid, etc. in program.
# Scrape real-time position report information (as XML) from FindU
my $aprsXml = Ham::Scraper::FindUXml($callsign);
Whether you are looking to scrape QRZ, Findu or APRSWorld information, you can have the results return in a hash or as simple XML document. A subroutine returning XML is suffixed with Xml.
This basic Perl module uses the following Web sites to scrape information relating to real-time position and call sign detail of Amateur Radio operators:
http://aprsworld.net http://www.findu.com http://www.qrz.com
FindU FindUXml
APRSWorld APRSWorldXml
Qrz QrzXml
For further information on APRS or Ham Radio, please visit the following web wites:
http://www.arrl.org http://aprsworld.net http://www.findu.com http://www.qrz.com
If you want to verify whether this module is the latest version that is available, then please check CPAN.
Kevin Wittmer, <kevinwittme7 at hotmail.com<gt>
Copyright (C) 2006 by Kevin Wittmer
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
