NAME WebService::Yahoo::BOSS - Interface to the Yahoo BOSS API SYNOPSIS use WebService::Yahoo::BOSS; # props out to the original boss Bruce Springsteen $Boss = WebService::Yahoo::BOSS->new( appid => $appid ); $res = $Boss->Web( query => 'microbrew award winner 2010', exclude => 'pilsner', ); # todo - add pluggable xml/json parser foreach my $hit ( @{$res ) { print $hit->url, $hit->title; # etc.. } DESCRIPTION This API wraps the Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search) web service API. Mad props to Yahoo for putting out a premium search api which encourages innovative use. For more information check out the following links. This is a work in progress, so patches welcome! The low level request structure is as follows: http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/{vertical}/v1/{query}?appid=xyz[¶m1=val1¶m2=val2&etc] SEE ALSO http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html L AUTHOR "Fred Moyer", COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2010 by Silver Lining Networks This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.