SYNOPSIS

use aliased 'HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA';

my $response = UA->get($url);
die unless $response->{success};

print $response->{decoded_content};

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple wrapper around HTTP::Tiny and LWP::UserAgent to smooth out the API differences between them. It only supports bog standard "get($url)" requests.

If LWP::UserAgent is already in memory, this module will use that.

If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, then this module will use HTTP::Tiny (or direct filesystem access for ``file://'' URLs).

If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, and you attempt to request a URL that HTTP::Tiny cannot handle (e.g. an ``ftp://'' URL), then this module will load LWP::UserAgent and die if it cannot be loaded (e.g. is not installed).

HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA is used by the "parse_file" method of HTML::HTML5::Parser.

Class Method

"get($url, $ua)"

Gets the URL and returns a hashref similar to HTTP::Tiny's hashrefs, but with an additional "decoded_content" key, which contains the response body, decoded into a Perl character string (not a byte string).

If $ua is given (it's optional), then this user agent will be used to perform the actual request. Must be undef or an LWP::UserAgent object (or a subclass) or an HTTP::Tiny object (or a subclass).

Package Variable

$HTML::HTML5::Parser::NO_LWP

If true, avoids using LWP::UserAgent.

MOTIVATION

LWP::UserAgent is a good piece of software but it has a dependency on HTML::Parser. HTML::Parser is only used to provide one fairly esoteric feature, which this package doesn't make use of. (It's the "parse_head" option.)

Because of that, I don't especially want HTML::HTML5::Parser to have a dependency on LWP::UserAgent. Hence this module.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster, <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Toby Inkster

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.