NAME
WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard - search www.TheITJobBoard.co.uk
SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard;
use Data::Dumper;
my $oSearch = WWW::Search->new('TheITJobBoard', _debug=>undef);
$oSearch->native_query(
WWW::Search::escape_query("perl"),
jobtype => WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::CONTRACT,
);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result){
warn Dumper $oResultr;
}
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DESCRIPTION
Gets jobs from the UK IT job site, *The IT Job Board*.
A sub-class of WWW::Search that uses HTML::TokeParser to return
"WWW::SearchResult" objects for each result found when querying
"www.theitjobboard.co.uk".
One frustrating aspect of *The IT Jobboard* is that, unlike *JobServe*
(WWW::Search::Jobserve), it doesn't provide an option to list jobs with
full descriptions. So this module offers the ability to create such a
list: provide the constructor parameter "detailed", with a value of
"html" or "text" to get details as HTML or plain text. This will extend
the "WWW::SearchResult" objects' "description" field, and also add a
"details" key, which is itself a hash with interesting keys such as
"location" and "salary" - those keys come directly from the HTML page,
so YMMV.
At the time of writing, valid options for The IT Job Board search are as
below. These should be passed to "native_query", as shown in the
example.
keywords
THe keywords your target job description should contain. Default is
"perl", of course.
jobtype
Valid values are: 1 for contract (our default), 2 for permenant, and
0 for either You may use constants:
"WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::CONTRACT",
"WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::PERM",
"WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::ANY".
days
The age of the posting, in days, according to the site's records. A
value of 0 represents any age. Our default is 1.
orderby
Not especially relevant for us: valid values are 1 to order by
relevance to the keywords; 2 to order by date posted; 3 orders by
salary; 4 puts non-agency jobs first, which is the default. You may
use constants: "WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::RELEVANCE",
"WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::DATE",
"WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::SALARY",
"WWW::Search::TheITJobBoard::NONAGENCY"
locations[]
This ugly-named entity limits the search by location. The default is
to return all jobs, regardless. Valid values are: "undef" to return
all jobs; 180 for UK, 124 for Netherlands, 93 for Germany, 69 for
France, 308 for Switzerland, 170 for Republic Of Ireland, 3 for
Austria, 301 for 'the rest Of the world,' 254 for 'other European.'
You may supply "location" instead of "location[]", but you will
still have to access the value you set via the latter.
currpage
The number of the page to start at, indexed from 1.
lang
Defaults to "en" for English, but you could try other two-letter ISO
codes.
DEPENDENCIES
WWW::Search, HTML::TokeParser.
SEE ALSO
This module was composed after reading WWW::Search, WWW::Search::Yahoo,
WWW::Search::Yahoo::Advanced and WWW::Search::Jobserve. If this module
is useful to you, check out the latter too.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) Lee Goddard, 2006. Some Rights Reserved.
LICENCE
This work is licensed under a *Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License*:
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk|http://creativecomm
ons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk>.