NAME

WWW::Baseball::NPB - Fetches Japanese baseball games information

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Baseball::NPB;
  my $baseball = WWW::Baseball::NPB->new;
  my @games  = $baseball->games;
  # or @games = $baseball->games('central');
  for my $game (@games) {
      my $home    = $game->home;
      my $visitor = $game->visitor;
      printf "%s %d - %d %s (%s) [%s]\n",
          $home, $game->score($home), $game->score($visitor), $visitor,
          $game->status, $game->stadium;
  }

DESCRIPTION

WWW::Baseball::NPB provides you a way to fetch and extract Japanese baseball games information via Yahoo! Baseball. (NPB = Nippon Professional Baseball)

NOTE

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Characters like team names, status and stadium are encoded in EUC-JP. You can convert them to any encoding via Jcode.

TODO

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Separate out Yahoo! Baseball parsing logic, using information provider architecture (e.g. WWW::Baseball::NPB::Provider::*)

AUTHOR

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

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

SEE ALSO

LWP::Simple