Net::Akismet(3)

NAME
Net::Akismet - Perl interface to Akismet - comment and trackback spam fighter

SYNOPSIS
        my $akismet = Net::Akismet->new(
                        KEY => 'secret-baba-API-key',
                        URL => 'http://example.blog.net/',
                ) or die('Key verification failure!');

        my $verdict = $akismet->check(
                        USER_IP                         => '10.10.10.11',
                        COMMENT_USER_AGENT      => 'Mozilla/5.0',
                        COMMENT_CONTENT         => 'Run, Lola, Run, the spam will catch you!',
                        COMMENT_AUTHOR          => 'dosser',
                        COMMENT_AUTHOR_EMAIL    => 'dosser@subway.de',
                        REFERRER                => 'http://lola.home/',
                ) or die('Is the server here?');

        if ('true' eq $verdict) {

                print "I found spam. I am a spam-founder!\n";
        }

METHODS

new()
            Net::Akismet->new(PARAM => ...);

    Acceptable parameters:

    KEY The API key being verified for use with the API.

    URL The front page or home URL of the instance making the request. For a blog or wiki this would be the front page.

    USER_AGENT
        If supplied the value is prepended to this module's identification string to become something like:

                your-killer-app/0.042 Perl-Net-Akismet/0.01 libwww-perl/5.8

        Otherwise just Akismet Perl's user agent string will be sent.

    SERVICE_HOST
        If supplied, the host of the service API. The default is rest.akismet.com

    SERVICE_VERSION
        If supplied, the API version. The default is 1.1

    If verification of the key was unsuccessful "new()" returns "undef".

check()
            $akismet->check(USER_IP => ..., COMMENT_CONTENT => ..., ...)

    To be or not to be... "check" is meant to tell you. Give it enough details about the comment and expect 'true', 'false' or "undef" as a result. 'true' means spam, 'false' means not spam, "undef" is returned on errror in submission of the comment.

    Acceptable comment characteristics:

    USER_IP
        Required. Represents the IP address of the comment submitter.

    COMMENT_USER_AGENT
        Required. User agent string from the comment submitter's request.

    COMMENT_CONTENT
        Comment text.

    REFERRER
        HTTP "Referer" header.

    PERMALINK
        Permanent link to the subject of the comment.

    COMMENT_TYPE
        May be blank, 'comment', 'trackback', 'pingback', or a made up value like 'registration'.

    COMMENT_AUTHOR
        Name of submitter.

    COMMENT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
        Submitter e-mail.

    COMMENT_AUTHOR_URL
        Submitter web page.

spam()
    Reports a certain comment as spam. Accepts the same arguments as "check()".

    In case of failed submission returns "undef", otherwise - a perl-known truth.

ham()
    This call is intended for the marking of false positives, things that were incorrectly marked as spam. It takes identical arguments as "check()" and "spam()".

    In case of failed submission returns "undef", otherwise - a perl-known truth.

NOTES
Although almost all comment characteristics are optional, performance can drop dramatically if you exclude certain elements. So please, supply as much comment detail as possible.

SEE ALSO

•   http://akismet.com/

•   http://akismet.com/development/api/

AUTHOR
Nikolay Bachiyski <nb@nikolay.bg>

  Help, modifications and bugfixes from:

•   Peter Pentchev

•   John Belmonte

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 by Nikolay Bachiyski

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

$Id: Akismet.pm 38 2008-06-05 17:15:12Z humperdink $