use strict;

use LWP;
use Term::ReadKey;
use Getopt::Std;
use XML::Simple;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use HTML::Template;

use constant URL => 'http://www.perlmonks.org/';

$| = 1;

use vars qw(%opts);
getopts('p:u:h',\%opts);
my ($user,$passwd,$help) = parse_args(\%opts);
USAGE() and exit unless $user and $passwd and not $help;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("all_node_grabber($user)/1.0 (" . $ua->agent .')');

# log in and access your nodes info xml page
my $request  = POST(URL, Content => [ 
      op      => 'login',
      user    => $user,
      passwd  => $passwd,
      node    => 'User nodes info xml generator',
]);
my $response = $ua->request($request);

# prepare xml
my $xml = $response->content();
# i have two nodes that have the registerd and copyright
# symbols in them - the next two lines were necesary - YMMV
$xml =~ s/©//g;
$xml =~ s/®//g;
$xml = XMLin($xml,forcearray=>1) or die "xml error!";

# munge data
my %bookmarks;
my $marker = qr/<!--\s*([a-z]+)\s*-->/; # YMMV here too

while(my($node_id,$hash) = each %{$xml->{'NODE'}}) {
   my $content    = $hash->{'content'};
   my ($category) = $content =~ /$marker/;
   next unless $category;

   # the next three lines are specific to me - YMMV
   $category = ucfirst $category . 's';
   $content =~ s/$marker(?:\($user\))*\s*\d*//;
   $content =~ s/(.{24}).{3,}/$1.../;

   push @{$bookmarks{$category}}, {id=>$node_id, content=>$content};
}

# prepare template
my $html = do {local $/; <DATA>};
my $template = HTML::Template->new( scalarref => \$html);
$template->param(
   categories => [ 
      map {{
         category => $_,
         nodes    => $bookmarks{$_} 
      }} sort keys %bookmarks # feel free to customize this sort
]);

# print template
print $template->output();

sub parse_args {
   my %opt = %{+shift};
   if (exists $opt{'p'} and not defined $opt{'p'} and defined $opt{'u'
+}) {
      print "Enter password: ";
      ReadMode 'noecho';
      chomp($opt{'p'} = ReadLine 0);
      ReadMode 'normal';
   }  
   return @opt{qw(u p h)};
}

sub USAGE { print "USAGE: $0 -u user -p -password\n" }


=pod

=head1 NAME

node_bookmark_lister.pl - LWP script

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is a simple script that uses LWP, XML::Simple, and
HTML::Template to produce an HTML table of nodes whose 
titles you have marked with an HMTL comment, such as 
<!--code--> or <!--neatstuff-->. The HTML template is 
included in the DATA handle for you convenience, simply 
change it to suite your needs.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  for *nix:
    ./node_bookmark_lister.pl -u uname -p 
  for win32:
    perl node_bookmark_lister.pl -u uname -p

Invokes the script for the specified username and 
interactively prompt for password if none specified.

=cut


__DATA__
<table width="200" border="1">
   <tmpl_loop name="categories">
   <tr><td>
      <font face="arial,geneva,sans-serif">
      <u><tmpl_var name="category"></u>
      <font size="2">
      <ul>
        <tmpl_loop name="nodes">
        <li>[id://<tmpl_var name="id">|<tmpl_var name="content">]
         </tmpl_loop>
      </ul>
      </font></font>
   </td></tr>
   </tmpl_loop>
</table>

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