WWW::Search::Scraper::Monster 2.27

WWW::Search::Scraper::Monster is a Perl module used to scrape Monster.com.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Search;
my $oSearch = new WWW::Search(Monster);
my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("unix and (c++ or java)");
$oSearch->native_query($sQuery,
{st => CA,
tm => 14d});
while (my $res = $oSearch->next_result()) {
print $res->company . "t" . $res->title . "t" . $res->change_date
. "t" . $res->location . "t" . $res->url . "n";
}

This class is a Monster specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Monster searches at http://www.monster.com. Monster supports Boolean logic with "and"s "or"s. See http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch_tips.asp for a full description of the query language.

The returned WWW::Search::Response objects contain url, title, company, location and change_date fields.