Saturday, March 1, 2003


DBD::Google is a Perl module providing database-like interaction with the Google Web API.
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:google:", $KEY);
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
  qq[ SELECT title, URL FROM google WHERE q = "hacks" ]
);
while (my $r = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
  ...
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Intriguing, though I think real power would come with being able to join. I wonder whether there are other modules allowing for such relational integration across web data sources.
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