Acme-Insult-Evil/lib/Acme/Insult/Evil.pm
package Acme::Insult::Evil 1.1 { # https://www.freepublicapis.com/evil-insult-generator
use v5.38;
use HTTP::Tiny;
use JSON::Tiny qw[decode_json];
use URI;
use parent 'Exporter';
our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( all => [ our @EXPORT_OK = qw[insult] ] );
#
use overload '""' => sub ( $s, $u, $b ) { $s->{insult} // () };
#
sub _http (%params) {
state $http
//= HTTP::Tiny->new( default_headers => { Accept => 'application/json' }, agent => sprintf '%s/%.2f ', __PACKAGE__, our $VERSION );
state $api //= URI->new('https://evilinsult.com/generate_insult.php');
# API accepts languages as a param named 'lang' but returns the language in a field called 'language'... why?
$api->query_form( type => 'json', ( defined $params{language} ? ( lang => delete $params{language} ) : () ), %params );
my $res = $http->get($api); # {success} is true even when advice is not found but we'll at least know when we have valid JSON
$res->{success} ? decode_json( $res->{content} ) : ();
}
#
sub insult (%args) { my $ref = _http(%args); $ref ? bless $ref, __PACKAGE__ : $ref }
}
1;
__END__
=encoding utf-8
=head1 NAME
Acme::Insult::Evil - Programmatically Generate Evil Insults
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Insult::Evil qw[insult];
say insult( ); # stringify
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Acme::Insult::Evil provides 'evil' 'insulting' statements generated by the RESTful Evil Insult Generator API.
=head1 METHODS
These functions may be imported by name or with the C<:all> tag.
=head2 C<insult( [...] )>
Tear someone down.
my $shade = insult( ); # Random insult
print insult( language => 'fr' ); # stringify
You may request specific insults by passing parameters.
Expected parameters include:
=over
=item C<language>
Insult's language. The default is C<en>. Supported languages include: C<en>, C<fr>, C<cn>, C<ja>, C<es>, etc.
=back
On success, an insult is returned as a blessed hash reference containing the following data:
=over
=item C<active>
Boolean value. If true, the insult is part of the public API.
=item C<comment>
This often provides contextual information about the insult's source of the insult itself.
=item C<created>
ISO 8601 date.
=item C<createdby>
=item C<insult>
=item C<language>
The language of the insult.
=item C<number>
The numeric id of the insult.
=item C<shown>
A running tally indicating how many times this insult has been seen.
=back
=head1 LICENSE & LEGAL
Copyright (C) Sanko Robinson.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms found in the Artistic License
2. Other copyrights, terms, and conditions may apply to data transmitted through this module.
Insults are generated by the L<Evil Insult Generator|https://evilinsult.com/>.
=head1 AUTHOR
Sanko Robinson E<lt>sanko@cpan.orgE<gt>
=head2 ...but why?
I'm inflicting this upon the world because L<oodler577|https://github.com/oodler577/> invited me to help expand Perl's
coverage of smaller open APIs. Blame them or L<join us|https://github.com/oodler577/FreePublicPerlAPIs> in the effort.
=begin stopwords
RESTful
=end stopwords
=cut