NAME

HTML::Summary - generate a summary from a web page

SYNOPSIS

 use HTML::Summary;
 use HTML::TreeBuilder;
 
 my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
 $tree->parse( $document );
 my $summarizer = HTML::Summary->new(
     LENGTH      => 200,
     USE_META    => 1,
 );
 $summary = $summarizer->generate( $tree );
 $summarizer->option( 'USE_META' => 1 );
 $length = $summarizer->option( 'LENGTH' );
 if ( $summarizer->meta_used() ) {
     # do something
 }

DESCRIPTION

The "HTML::Summary" module produces summaries from the textual content of web pages. It does so using the location heuristic, which determines the value of a given sentence based on its position and status within the document; for example, headings, section titles and opening paragraph sentences may be favoured over other textual content. A LENGTH option can be used to restrict the length of the summary produced.

CONSTRUCTOR

new( $attr1 => $value1 [, $attr2 => $value2 ] )

Possible attributes are:

VERBOSE: Generate verbose messages to STDERR.

LENGTH: Maximum length of summary (in bytes). Default is 500.

USE_META: Flag to tell summarizer whether to use the content of the "<META"> tag in the page header, if one is present, instead of generating a summary from the body text. Note that if the USE_META flag is set, this overrides the LENGTH flag - in other words, the summary provided by the "<META"> tag is returned in full, even if it is greater than LENGTH bytes. Default is 0 (no).

 my $summarizer = HTML::Summary->new(LENGTH => 200);

METHODS

option( )

Get / set HTML::Summary configuration options.

 my $length = $summarizer->option( 'LENGTH' );
 $summarizer->option( 'USE_META' => 1 );

generate( $tree )

Takes an HTML::Element object, and generates a summary from it.

 my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
 $tree->parse( $document );
 my $summary = $summarizer->generate( $tree );

meta_used( )

Returns 1 if the META tag description was used to generate the summary.

 if ( $summarizer->meta_used() ) {
     # do something ...
 }

REPOSITORY

<https://github.com/neilb/HTML-Summary>

AUTHORS

This module was originally whipped up by Neil Bowers and Tony Rose. It was then developed and maintained by Ave Wrigley and Tony Rose.

Neil Bowers is currently maintaining the HTML-Summary distribution.

Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.