NAME

WWW::Scraper::F1 - Use f1.com race data seamlessly in perl.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Scraper:F1;

my $top      = get_top_championship( { length => 5 } );
my $upcoming = get_upcoming_race();

FUNCTIONS

get_top_championship()

This functions retrieves the current championship. It returns a reference to an array of hashes. By default it returns the top 5 drivers like this.

[
    { name => "Sebastian Vettel" , points => 55 , team => "Red Bull Racing" }
    { name => "Fernando Alonso"  , points => 40 , team => "Ferrari" }
]

You can specify options via a hash reference get_top_chamionship( {length => 3} )

Available options:

• points

  Show how many points he has collected behind the drivers name. (defautl is "yes")

• length

  How long the list should be (defautl is top 5)

• cache

  Set this to 0, to not use the internal cache mechanism. This will disable reading form the cache file, it will still write the results of the call to it.

• year

  Specify wich year you want the results from. (defautl is the current year)

get_upcoming_race()

This function returns a reference to a hash. The hash elements contain information about the upcoming race. The hash looks like this:

{
  'country'    => 'Canada',
  'city'       => 'Montreal',
  'time'       => '10/06/12 20:00:00',
  'countdown'  => '7 days 21 hours'
}

You can specify options via a hash refernce, get_upcoming_rac( { cache => 0 } ) Available options:

• cache

  Set this to 0, to not use the internal cache mechanism. This will disable reading form the cache file, it will still write the results of the call to it.

INTERNALS

This module caches the results fetched from f1.com for futher use. Since the actual data only changes after a race, it only needs to fetch it again if the cache is older then the previous race.

AUTHOR

Freek Kalter

freek@kalteronline.org

http://kalteronline.org

COPYRIGHT

This module is distributed under the same lincense as perl5 itself.