NAME
    Net::Amazon::AWIS- Use the Amazon Alexa Web Information Service

SYNOPSIS
      use Net::Amazon::AWIS;
      my $awis = Net::Amazon::AWIS->new($subscription_id);
      my $data1= $awis->url_info(url => "http://use.perl.org/");
      my $data2 = $awis->web_map(url => "http://use.perl.org");
      my @results = $awis->crawl(url => "http://use.perl.org");

DESCRIPTION
    The Net::Amazon::AWIS module allows you to use the Amazon Alexa Web
    Information Service.

    The Alexa Web Information Service (AWIS) provides developers with
    programmatic access to the information Alexa Internet (www.alexa.com)
    collects from its Web Crawl, which currently encompasses more than 100
    terabytes of data from over 4 billion Web pages. Developers and Web site
    owners can use AWIS as a platform for finding answers to difficult and
    interesting problems on the Web, and incorporating them into their Web
    applications.

    In order to access the Alexa Web Information Service, you will need an
    Amazon Web Services Subscription ID. See
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/landing.html

    Registered developers have free access to the Alexa Web Information
    Service during its beta period, but it is limited to 10,000 requests per
    subscription ID per day.

    There are some limitations, so be sure to read the The Amazon Alexa Web
    Information Service FAQ.

INTERFACE
    The interface follows. Most of this documentation was copied from the
    API reference. Upon errors, an exception is thrown.

  new
    The constructor method creates a new Net::Amazon::AWIS object. You must
    pass in an Amazon Web Services Subscription ID. See
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/landing.html:

      my $sq = Net::Amazon::AWIS->new($subscription_id);

  url_info
    The url_info method provides information about URLs. Examples of this
    information includes data on how popular a site is, and sites that are
    related.

    You pass in a URL and get back a hash full of information. This includes
    the Alexa three month average traffic rank for the given site, the
    median load time and percent of known sites that are slower, whether the
    site is likely to contain adult content, the content language code and
    character-encoding, which dmoz.org categories the site is in, and
    related sites:

      my $data = $awis->url_info(url => "http://use.perl.org/");
      print "Rank:       " . $data->{rank}                 . "\n";
      print "Load time:  " . $data->{median_load_time}     . "\n";
      print "%Load time: " . $data->{percentile_load_time} . "\n";
      print "Likely to contain adult content\n" if $data->{adult_content};
      print "Encoding:   " . $data->{encoding}             . "\n";
      print "Locale:     " . $data->{locale}               . "\n";

      foreach my $cat (@{$data->{categories}}) {
        my $path  = $cat->{path};
        my $title = $cat->{title};
        print "dmoz.org: $path / $title\n";
      }

      foreach my $related (@{$data->{related}}) {
        my $canonical  = $related->{canonical};
        my $url        = $related->{url};
        my $relevance  = $related->{relevance};
        my $title      = $related->{title};
        print "Related: $url / $title ($relevance)\n";
      }

  web_map
    The web_map method provides complete listing of all known links pointing
    in and links pointing out for any page/URL on the web. Web Maps have
    been found to be useful when creating new search engine algorithms. As
    of October 2004, there are 17 billion nodes in the web map, based on 4
    million text/html pages crawled. For the 4 billion URLs crawled, Amazon
    will be able to provide both links pointing in and links pointing out
    information. For the remaining 13 billion URLs, Amazon will only be able
    to provide links pointing in.

      my $data = $awis->web_map(url => "http://use.perl.org");
      my @links_in  = $data->{links_in};
      my @links_out = $data->{links_out};

  crawl
    The crawl method returns information about a specific URL as provided by
    the most recent Alexa Web Crawls. Information about the last few times
    the site URL was crawled is returned.

    Information per crawl include: URL, IP address, date of the crawl (as a
    DateTime object), status code, page length, content type and language.
    In addition, a list of other URLs is included (like "rel" URLs), as is
    the list of images and links found.

      my @results = $awis->crawl(url => "http://use.perl.org");
      foreach my $result (@results) {
        print "URL: "          . $result->{url} . "\n";
        print "IP: "           . $result->{ip} . "\n";
        print "Date: "         . $result->{date} . "\n";
        print "Code: "         . $result->{code} . "\n";
        print "Length: "       . $result->{length} . "\n";
        print "Content type: " . $result->{content_type} . "\n";
        print "Language: "     . $result->{language} . "\n";

        foreach my $url (@{$result->{other_urls})) {
          print "Other URL: $url\n";
        }

        foreach my $images (@{$result->{images})) {
          print "Image: $image\n";
        }

        foreach my $link (@{$result->{links})) {
          my $name = $link->{name};
          my $uri  = $link->{uri};
          print "Link: $name -> $uri\n";
        }
      }

  search
    The search method may be used to retrieve a list of search results that
    match one or more keywords. The Web Search is based on an Alexa index of
    the web that, as of August 2004, has over 4 billion URLs. Options are as
    follows:

    timeout: Time in milliseconds to wait for a response. to wait for a
    response. Web Search will attempt to respond with as many results as
    possible within the timeout period. '0' means inifinite. Default value
    is '3000'.

    max_results_per_host: Maximum number of results to return from any one
    site. '0' means no limit. Default value is '5.'

    duplicate_check: set to 'yes' to filter out results that are
    substantially similar to those already shown. Default value is 'yes'.

    count_only: setting to 'yes' will return only a count of matching sites.
    Default value is 'no.'

    context: setting to 'yes' will return a Context node beneath each
    Result, indicating where keyword(s) match within the document. Default
    value is 'yes.'

    relevance: allows faster searching with weak relevance (0) to slow
    searching with strong relevance checking (4). Default value is '0.'

    ignore_words: query terms appearing in nore than this percent of all
    pages in our index will be ignored.

    start: number of result at which to start. Used for paging through
    results. Default value is '0.'

    count: number of results (maximum) per page to return. Note that the
    response document may contain fewer results than this maximum. Default
    value is '10' (maximum 1000).

    adult_filter: filter for adult content. 'Yes' will provide strict
    filtering of results, showing only sites that are explicitly identified
    as not adult. 'Moderate' will filter sitse that are identified as adult,
    but allow unknowns to be included. Default value is 'no.'

    Note: the results from this search seem to be less accurate than other
    web search engines.

      my @links = $awis->search(query => 'leon brocard');
      foreach my $link (@links) {
        my $score = $link->{score};
        my $uri   = $link->{uri};
        my $title = $link->{title} || "No title";
        print "$uri $title ($score)\n";
      }

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    No bugs have been reported. This module currently does not support
    "Category" searches.

    Please report any bugs or feature requests to
    "bug-<Net-Amazon-AWIS"@rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at
    <http://rt.cpan.org>.

AUTHOR
    Leon Brocard "acme@astray.com"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2005, Leon Brocard "acme@astray.com". All rights reserved.

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

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