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NAME

WWW::BugMeNot - An interface to the BugMeNot.com website. Given a URL that requires a registration, it returns a donated username and password

VERSION

0.01 - September 12

SYNOPSIS

    use WWW::BugMeNot;
    my $url = "http://www.nytimes.com";
    my @username_and_password = password($url);
    print "Username = $username_and_password[0]";
    print "Password = $username_and_password[1]";

DESCRIPTION

Many websites require compulsory registration before they will allow readers to access their pages. This is bad for a variety of reasons, and so many people use BugMeNot.com to share common usernames and passwords. This module provides a programmatic interface to BugMeNot.

INTERFACE

WWW::BugMeNot presents one method to the outer world:

    password("$url")

Which takes a URL, and returns an array containing a username and password. The username is in $array[0] and the password in $array[1]

That's it. There is currently no checking for sites that are not listed on BugMeNot, and the module will do horrid things upon finding such a beast.

PREREQUISITES

LWP::Simple, HTML::TokeParser

AUTHOR

Ben Hammersley <ben@benhammersley.com>

BUGS

Potentially many. This module uses screen-scraping to retrieve the passwords. If BugMeNot change their pages, the module will break.

Please use the CPAN bugtracking system at http://rt.cpan.org/ to report bugs, or make suggestions.

SEE ALSO

http://www.bugmenot.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Ben Hammersley

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.