package XML::RSS::Headline::Fark; use strict; use warnings; use base qw(XML::RSS::Headline); use URI::Escape qw(uri_unescape); =head1 NAME XML::RSS::Headline::Fark - XML::RSS::Headline Example Subclass =head1 VERSION 2.2 =cut our $VERSION = 2.2; =head1 SYNOPSIS Strip out the extra Fark redirect URL and strip out the various [blahblah] blocks in the headline use XML::RSS::Feed; use XML::RSS::Headline::Fark; use LWP::Simple qw(get); my $feed = XML::RSS::Feed->new( name => "fark", url => "http://www.pluck.com/rss/fark.rss", hlobj => "XML::RSS::Headline::Fark", ); while (1) { $feed->parse(get($feed->url)); print $_->headline . "\n" for $feed->late_breaking_news; sleep($feed->delay); } Here is the before output in #news on irc.perl.org - [Sad] Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=1200026&location=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408022 and here is the updated output - Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408022 =head1 MUTAITED METHOD =over 4 =item B<< $headline->item( $item ) >> Init the object for a parsed RSS item returned by L. =back =cut sub item { my ( $self, $item ) = @_; $self->SUPER::item($item); # set url and description my $headline = $self->headline; $headline =~ s/\[.+?\]\s+//; $self->headline($headline); my $url = $self->url; my $stripit = qr/ http\:\/\/ go\.fark\.com\/ cgi\/fark\/go\.pl\? IDLink\=\d+\& location\= /x; $url =~ s/$stripit//; $self->url( uri_unescape($url) ); } =head1 AUTHOR Jeff Bisbee, C<< >> =head1 BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to C, or through the web interface at L. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. =head1 SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc XML::RSS::Headline::Fark You can also look for information at: =over 4 =item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation L =item * CPAN Ratings L =item * RT: CPAN's request tracker L =item * Search CPAN L =back =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to Rocco Caputo, Martijn van Beers, Sean Burke, Prakash Kailasa and Randal Schwartz for their help, guidance, patience, and bug reports. Guys thanks for actually taking time to use the code and give good, honest feedback. =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2006 Jeff Bisbee, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, L, L =cut 1;