A Perl API for TVRage – WebService::TVRage

Kyle — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:38:11 +0000

The Module
This new module I have written provides an object oriented interface to TVRage’s XML service which allows you to get episode and other information for television shows. It is written very similarly to my previous module, WebService::UPS, and also uses XML::Simple and Mouse. You can get the module from CPAN here. You can also install it with ’sudo cpan -i WebService::TVRage’.

Example:

use WebService::TVRage::EpisodeListRequest;
use WebService::TVRage::ShowSearchRequest;

my $searchReq =   WebService::TVRage::ShowSearchRequest->new();
my $searchResults = $searchReq->search('Heroes');
my $heroFromSearch = $searchResults->getShow('Heroes');
print $heroFromSearch->getLink(), "\n";
print $heroFromSearch->getCountry(), "\n";
print $heroFromSearch->getStatus(), "\n";
my $heroes =  WebService::TVRage::EpisodeListRequest->new( 'episodeID' => $heroFromSearch->getShowID() );
my $episodeList = $heroes->getEpisodeList();
print $episodeList->getNumSeasons(), "\n";
my $episode = $episodeList->getEpisode(1,3);
print $episode->getTitle(), "\n";
print $episode->getAirDate(), "\n";
foreach my $showtitle ($searchResults->getTitleList()) {
   my $show = $searchResults->getShow($showtitle);
   print $show->getLink();
}

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A Perl API for TVRage – WebService::TVRage