NAME
WWW::Search::YahooNews - backend for searching Yahoo News
SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Search; $query = "Bob Hope"; $search = new WWW::Search('YahooNews'); $search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query)); $search->maximum_to_retrieve(100); while (my $result = $search->next_result()) {
$url = $result->url; $title = $result->title; $desc = $result->description;
print "<a href=$url>$title</a><br>$desc<p>\n"; }
DESCRIPTION
This class is a Yahoo specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Yahoo News Searches. Yahoo allows searching a wide variety of news sources like SEC and PRWire to name a few. http://www.search.news.yahoo.com.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
native_setup_search is called (from WWW::Search::setup_search) before we do anything. It initializes our private variables (which all begin with underscore) and sets up a URL to the first results page in {_next_url}.
native_retrieve_some is called (from WWW::Search::retrieve_some) whenever more hits are needed. It calls WWW::Search::http_request to fetch the page specified by {_next_url}. It then parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to {cache}. If it finds a ``next'' button in the text, it sets {_next_url} to point to the page for the next set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate we''re done.
AUTHOR
This Backend is will now be maintained and supported by Jim Smyser. Flames to: <jsmyser@bigfoot.com>
LEGALESE
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
CHANGES
1.0 First release.