NAME

       WebService::CIA::Parser - Parse pages from the CIA World Factbook

SYNOPSIS

         use WebService::CIA::Parser;
         my $parser = WebService::CIA::Parser->new;
         my $data = $parser->parse($string);

DESCRIPTION

       WebService::CIA::Parser takes a string of HTML and parses it. It will only give sensible
       output if the string is the HTML for a page whose URL matches
       "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/[a-z]{2}\.html"

       This parsing is somewhat fragile, since it assumes a certain page structure.  It'll work
       just as long as the CIA don't choose to alter their pages.

METHODS

       "new"
           Creates a new WebService::CIA::Parser object. It takes no arguments.

       "parse($html)"
           Parses a string of HTML take from the CIA World Factbook. It takes a single string as
           its argument and returns a hashref of fields and values.

           The values are stripped of all HTML. "<br>" tags are replaced by newlines.

           It also creates four extra fields: "URL", "URL - Print", "URL - Flag", and "URL - Map"
           which are the URLs of the country's Factbook page, the printable version of that page,
           a GIF map of the country, and a GIF flag of the country respectively.

EXAMPLE

         use WebService::CIA::Parser;
         use LWP::Simple qw(get);

         $html = get(
           "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/uk.html"
         );
         $parser = WebService::CIA::Parser->new;
         $data = $parser->parse($html);
         print $data->{"Population"};

AUTHOR

       Ian Malpass (ian-cpan@indecorous.com)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2003-2007, Ian Malpass

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

       The CIA World Factbook's copyright information page
       (<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/contributor_copyright.html>)
       states:

         The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied
         freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

SEE ALSO

       WebService::CIA