Net::D...:Client(3pm)

💖 Net::DPAP::Client(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because today we're talking about the Net::DPAP::Client page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — and yes, it's giving iconic Perl module energy. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Net::DPAP::Client — connect to iPhoto shares (DPAP). that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the tea, literally copy-paste this and you're off:

use Net::DPAP::Client;
my $client = Net::DPAP::Client->new;
$client->hostname($hostname);
my @albums = $client->connect;

foreach my $album (@albums) {
  print $album->name, "\n";
  foreach my $image (@{$album->images}) {
    print "  ", $image->name, "\n";
    my $thumbnail = $image->thumbnail;
    my $hires = $image->hires;
  }
}

look at you go, browsing albums AND images in one little loop. main character behavior fr. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this module is a whole DPAP client. and what is DPAP, you ask? it's the Digital Photo Access Protocol — the exact protocol Apple iPhoto uses to share photos around. no cap. 🍓

that means you get to:

• browse shared albums 🖼️
• download thumbnail versions of shared photos
• download hires versions of shared photos

it's giving "your photos, but make it networked." 🌈

💀 real talk though: it currently doesn't support password-protected shares. so if your share has a password on it, this module is just gonna stand there like 🙈. that's the situation, no cap.

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💅 METHODS 💅

new

the constructor, aka where every beautiful friendship begins:

my $client = Net::DPAP::Client->new;
$client->hostname($hostname);

make the client, then tell it whose house you're visiting. iconic. ✨

connect

connect to the hostname:

my @albums = $client->connect;

that's it. that's the move. it hands you back your albums and you go absolutely feral browsing them. 🔥

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these next, bestie, they're the supporting cast:

• Net::DPAP::Client::Album
• Net::DPAP::Client::Image

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com> — thank you for your service, king. 👑

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2004-6, Leon Brocard

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

(translation: it's free, go wild, just keep the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💜)

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and that's the whole page, babes — this one's from perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-16, straight outta the User Contributed Perl Documentation. mwah. 💋🎀