## MTworldPop by Oscar Hills 4-17-03 - just more site scraping 
## similar to dhsLevel by Alex Halavais which is in turn
## based on MTNetflixQueue by B. Trott.
## Blosxom adaptation by Peter Florijn

package worldpop; 

use LWP::UserAgent;

# --- Configurable variables -----
$debug_level ||= 1;

my $package = "worldpop";

sub debug {
    my ($level, @msg) = @_;

    if ($debug_level >= $level) {
	print STDERR "$package debug $level: @msg\n";
    }
}


sub scrape_pop {
    my $out = 'Could not retrieve population.';
    my $population = 'http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/';
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $population);
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    $ua->agent('cenCheck/1.0');
    my $res = $ua->request($req);
    my $c = $res->content;
    
    if ($c =~ /<BR>World <SPAN STYLE=\"color: rgb\(255,0,0\); font-weight: 700; font-size: 10pt; \">(.*?)<\/SPAN>/)
    { 
          $out = $1;
    }
    $worldpop = $out;
    debug(1, "worldpop is $worldpop");  

}

sub start {

debug(1, "Start scraping");
scrape_pop;
}
1;

__END__

=head1 NAME

Blosxom Plug-in: worldPop

=head1 SYNOPSIS

Purpose: Produces a number representing the world population.

Uses CSS class


Description

Produces a number representing the world population.

Configuration

$debug_level ||= 1;

Set debuglevel to 0 when the plugin works OK.

Additional Bits Required 

Category
/display ?

Date
12-7-2003

Todo list



=head1 VERSION

2.0rc5

Version number coincides with the version of Blosxom with which the 
current version was first bundled.

=head1 AUTHOR

Peter Florijn  <tooh@tooh.myweb.nl>, http://tooh.myweb.nl/

=head1 SEE ALSO

Blosxom Home/Docs/Licensing: http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/

Blosxom Plugin Docs: http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/plugin.shtml

=head1 BUGS

Address bug reports and comments to the Blosxom mailing list 
[http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/blosxom].

=head1 LICENSE

This Blosxom Plug-in
Copyright 2003, Peter Florijn 

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