NAME

       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA - simple web user agent class

SYNOPSIS

        use aliased 'HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA';

        my $response = UA->get($url);
        die unless $response->{success};

        print $response->{decoded_content};

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple wrapper around HTTP::Tiny and LWP::UserAgent to smooth out the API differences between
       them. It only supports bog standard "get($url)" requests.

       If LWP::UserAgent is already in memory, this module will use that.

       If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, then this module will use HTTP::Tiny (or direct filesystem access for
       "file://" URLs).

       If LWP::UserAgent is not in memory, and you attempt to request a URL that HTTP::Tiny cannot handle (e.g.
       an "ftp://" URL), then this module will load LWP::UserAgent and die if it cannot be loaded (e.g. is not
       installed).

       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA is used by the "parse_file" method of HTML::HTML5::Parser.

   Class Method
       "get($url, $ua)"
           Gets  the  URL  and  returns  a  hashref  similar  to  HTTP::Tiny's  hashrefs, but with an additional
           "decoded_content" key, which contains the response body, decoded into a Perl character string (not  a
           byte string).

           If  $ua  is  given  (it's optional), then this user agent will be used to perform the actual request.
           Must be undef or an LWP::UserAgent object (or a subclass) or an HTTP::Tiny object (or a subclass).

   Package Variable
       $HTML::HTML5::Parser::NO_LWP
           If true, avoids using LWP::UserAgent.

MOTIVATION

       LWP::UserAgent is a good piece of software but it has a dependency on HTML::Parser. HTML::Parser is  only
       used  to  provide  one  fairly  esoteric  feature,  which  this  package  doesn't  make use of. (It's the
       "parse_head" option.)

       Because of that, I don't especially want HTML::HTML5::Parser to  have  a  dependency  on  LWP::UserAgent.
       Hence this module.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::HTML5::Parser.

AUTHOR

       Toby Inkster, <tobyink@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2012 by Toby Inkster

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT  ANY  EXPRESS  OR  IMPLIED  WARRANTIES,  INCLUDING,  WITHOUT
       LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-08-28                       HTML::HTML5::Parser::UA(3pm)