NAME

WWW::Search::Metacrawler - class for searching Metacrawler

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Metacrawler');
  my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio");
  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
    { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }

DESCRIPTION

This class is a Metacrawler specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Metacrawler searches http://www.metacrawler.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

SEE ALSO

To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

TESTING

This module adheres to the WWW::Search test suite mechanism. See $TEST_CASES below.

AUTHOR

As of 1998-02-02, WWW::Search::Metacrawler is maintained by Martin Thurn (MartinThurn@iname.com).

WWW::Search::Metacrawler was originally written by Wm. L. Scheding, based on WWW::Search::AltaVista.

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.

VERSION HISTORY

If it''s not listed here, then it wasn''t a meaningful nor released revision.

2.01

Code cleanup, no change in functionality.

1.17

Metacrawler changed their search script location and output format on 1998-05-21. Also, as many as 6 fields of each SearchResult are now filled in.

1.13

Fixed the maximum_to_retrieve off-by-one problem. Updated test cases.

1.12

Metacrawler does not do truncation. Therefore, if the query contains truncation characters (i.e. '*' at end of words), they are simply deleted before the query is sent to Metacrawler.

1.11

Fixed and revamped by Martin Thurn. Sent to John Heidemann (maintainer of WWW::Search) on 1998-02-05 for inclusion in the next release of WWW::Search.