NAME

Net::FireEagle - access Yahoo's new FireEagle location service

SYNOPSIS

    # Set up Fire Eagle oauth
    my $fe  = Net::FireEagle->new( consumer_key    => $consumer_key, 
                                   consumer_secret => $consumer_secret );
    # Resume previous Fire Eagle oauth, feed access token and secret
    my $fe2 = Net::FireEagle->new( consumer_key        => $consumer_key, 
                                   consumer_secret     => $consumer_secret, 
                                   access_token        => $access_token, 
                                   access_token_secret => $access_token_secret );
    # Send this to user to grant authorization for this app
    my $auth_url = $fe->get_authorization_url;
    # ... and request an access token
    # Note: you can save these in DB to restore previous Fire Eagle oauth session
    my ($access_token, $access_token_secret) = $fe->request_access_token;
    # Get them back
    my $access_token = $fe->access_token;
    my $access_token_secret = $fe->access_token_secret;
    # in the case of a web app, you want to save the request tokens
    # (and/or set them)
    my $request_token = $fe->request_token;
    my $request_token_secret = $fe->request_token_secret;
    $fe->request_token( $request_token );
    $fe->request_token_secret( $request_token_secret );
    # Can't query or update location without authorization
    my $loc = $fe->location;                     # returns xml
    my $loc = $fe->location( format => 'xml'  ); # returns xml
    my $loc = $fe->location( format => 'json' ); # returns json
    # returns result on success. dies or returns undef on failure    
    my $return = $fe->update_location( "500 Third St., San Francisco, CA" );
    # Find a location. Returns either xml or json
    my $return = $fe->lookup_location( "Pensacola" );

ABOUT

Fire Eagle is a site that stores information about your location. With your permission, other services and devices can either update that information or access it. By helping applications respond to your location, Fire Eagle is designed to make the world around you more interesting! Use your location to power friend-finders, games, local information services, blog badges and stuff like that...

For more information see http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/

AUTHENTICATION

For more information read this

    http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/getting_started

but, in short you have to first get an API key from the FireEagle site. Then using this consumer key and consumer secret you have to authenticate the relationship between you and your user. See the script "fireagle" packaged with this module for an example of how to do this.

SIMPLE DAILY USAGE AND EXAMPLE CODE

The script "fireeagle" shipped with this module gives you really quick access to your FireEagle account - you can use it to simply query and update your location.

It also serves as a pretty good example of how to do desktop app authentication and how to use the API.

METHODS

new <opts>

Create a new FireEagle object. This must have the options

consumer_key

consumer_secret

which you can get at http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/manage

then, when you have your per-user authentication tokens (see above) you can supply

access_token

access_token_secret

Alternatively when you create a new web-based application, a general-purpose access token is issued to you along with your application key and secret. You can get them at http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/manage.

They are tied to your application and allow your application to make general-purpose API method calls (often batch-style) to Fire Eagle.

You can read about them at

    http://fireagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/using_oauth#feaccesstokens

You can pass them in using the param

general_token

general_token_secret

location [opt[s]

Get the user's current location.

Options are passed in as a hash and may be one of

format: Either 'xml' or 'json'. Defaults to 'xml'.

update_location <location> <opt[s]>

Takes a free form string with the new location.

Return the result of the update in either xml or json depending on "opts".

The location can either be a plain string or a hash reference containing location parameters as described in

    http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/location#locparams

lookup_location <query> <opt[s]>

Disambiguates potential values for update. Results from lookup can be passed to update to ensure that Fire Eagle will understand how to parse the location parameter.

Return the result of the update in either xml or json depending on "opts".

The query can either be a plain string or a hash reference containing location parameters as described in

    http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/location#locparams

within <query> <opt[s]>

Takes a Place ID or a WoE ID and returns a list of users using your application who are within the bounding box of that location.

Return the result of the update in either xml or json depending on "opts".

The query can either be a plain string or a hash reference containing location parameters as described in

    http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/location#locparams

recent <query> [opt[s]]

Query for users of an Application who have updated their locations recently.

Return the result of the update in either xml or json depending on "opts".

Query is either a number representing a unix time stamp, to specify the earliest update to return, or a hash reference containing parameters as described in

    http://fireagle.yahoo.net/developer/documentation/querying#recent

BUGS

Non known

DEVELOPERS

The latest code for this module can be found at

    https://svn.unixbeard.net/simon/Net-FireEagle

AUTHOR

Original code by Yahoo! Brickhouse.

Additional code from Aaron Straup Cope

Rewritten and packaged by Simon Wistow <swistow@sixapart.com>

COPYRIGHT

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