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NAME
    WebService::Yahoo::BOSS - Interface to the Yahoo BOSS API

SYNOPSIS
     use WebService::Yahoo::BOSS;

     # props out to the original boss Bruce Springsteen
     $Boss = WebService::Yahoo::BOSS->new( appid => $appid );

     $res = $Boss->Web( query   => 'microbrew award winner 2010',
                        exclude => 'pilsner', );

     # todo - add pluggable xml/json parser
     foreach my $hit ( @{$res ) {
         print $hit->url, $hit->title; # etc..
     }

DESCRIPTION
    This API wraps the Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search) web service API.

    Mad props to Yahoo for putting out a premium search api which encourages
    innovative use.

    For more information check out the following links. This is a work in
    progress, so patches welcome!

    The low level request structure is as follows:

     http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/{vertical}/v1/{query}?appid=xyz[&param1=val1&param2=val2&etc]

SEE ALSO
     http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

     L<Google::Search>

AUTHOR
    "Fred Moyer", <fred@slwifi.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2010 by Silver Lining Networks

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at
    your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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