# ODP::Category::Random - An ODP public page parsing class with a touch of randomness (aka Category Roulette) (Version 0.01) # Copyright (C)2002 Richard P. Fuller # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA package ODP::Category::Random; use strict; use LWP::Simple; use ODP::Category; our @ISA="ODP::Category"; # new - Initialises a new ODP::Category::Random object # Parameters: None # Returns: ODP::Category object sub new () { my $object = {}; my $page = get('http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search='); my @results; while ($page =~ s/
  • ([^<]+)<\/a>//) { push @results, $1; } $object->{'category'} = ODP::Category::normalise($results[rand(4)]); return bless $object; }