Net::OpenID::UserProfile

[Benjamin Trott]

I posted this link earlier today, but I'll post it again because your
message is even more explicitly similar to its purpose:

    <http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/WWW-Blog-Metadata-0.02/>

It's plugin-based, and allows plugins to register hooks into fetching pages,
parsing pages, etc.

Ben


On 5/25/05 1:16 PM, "Ben Hyde" <bhyde at pobox.com> wrote:

> Cool.  Is there any reason for why this cool UserProfile
> mining/scraping/swiss-army-knife can't be
> OpenID independent.  I.e. you create an instance and then you feed it
> various URL/pages;
> possibly with format hints, and let it inhale what it can.  It would be
> sweet if it was easy to
> add plug-ins; since there are an awful lot of one off meta tags et. al.
> in use out there as well
> as a lot of badging do hickeys where if you run down the link under the
> badge there is often
> some useful profile-ish data.
> 
> On May 25, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
>> Mart, other Perl hackers,
>> 
>> Mark Smith and I were discussing today a new module today, tentatively
>> called Net::OpenID::UserProfile, which would take a VerifiedIdentity
>> object from Net::OpenID::Consumer and use the foaf/maker/rss/atom data
>> that it discovers and makes available, and then actually goes and
>> crawls
>> those resources (perhaps in some defined order of preference) to build
>> a
>> UserProfile object with things like email (or hash), name, nick, blog
>> URL,
>> etc.
>> 
>> Net::OpenID::UserProfile would depend on lots of XML-heavy libraries
>> for
>> the parsing, and would use the Net::OpenID::Consumer object itself
>> (available as ->consumer from the VerifiedIdentity) to actually get the
>> XML documents, so they're fetched with your UA of choice (probably
>> LWPx::ParanoidAgent) and the caching/if-modified-since is done for you
>> by
>> the Net::OpenID::Consumer caching framework, so you don't have to think
>> about whether caching of resources is done to disk, database, etc.
>> 
>> It'd look like:
>> 
>> use Net::OpenID::Consumer;
>> use Net::OpenID::UserProfile;
>> 
>> my $vident = Net::OpenID::Consumer->verified_identity;
>> 
>> my $profile = Net::OpenID::UserProfile->new(
>>         identity => $vident,
>> order => [ qw(foaf vcard atom rss) ],
>> );
>> 
>> print $profile->nick, "\n";
>> print $profile->blog_url, "\n";
>> print $profile->birth_date, "\n";
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Or something?
>> 
>> Somebody want to write that?
>> 
>> Mark expressed some interest but has little time and isn't completely
>> comfortable with pretending to be an authority in interpretting
>> semantic
>> XML data.  He might end up doing it, but he just said on AIM that he'd
>> prefer to pass it off to somebody.
>> 
>> - Brad
>> 
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