WWW::Search::Infoseek - class for searching Infoseek
use WWW::Search; my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Infoseek'); my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio"); $oSearch->native_query($sQuery); while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result()) { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }
This class is a Infoseek specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Infoseek searches http://www.infoseek.com.
This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.
L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::Companies> L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web> L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::News>
To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.
Please tell the author if you find any!
This module adheres to the WWW::Search test suite mechanism.
WWW::Search
See WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web for test cases for the default usage.
WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web
WWW::Search::Infoseek is maintained by Martin Thurn (MartinThurn@iname.com).
WWW::Search::Infoseek
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.
If it is not listed here, then it was not a meaningful nor released revision.
BUGFIX for not seeing all the URLs on a page, and fetching the first page of results over and over(!).
Now strips HTML tags from titles and descriptions.
Companies and News searches now work!
www.infoseek.com changed their output format ever so slightly. Companies and News searches return URLs, but titles and descriptions are unreliable.
www.infoseek.com changed their output format.
Fixed BUG in parsing of News search results. Added version method.
Fixed BUG in parsing of Companies search results. Thanks to Jim Smyser (jsmyser@bigfoot.com) for pointing it out.
www.infoseek.com changed their output format. Thanks to Andreas Borchert (borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de) for patches.
Fixed BUG where (apparently) no titles were retrieved.
www.infoseek.com changed their output format ever-so-slightly.
First publicly-released version.
To install WWW::Search, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WWW::Search
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WWW::Search
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.