NAME

WWW::Search::Excite - backend for searching www.excite.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Excite');
  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 Excite specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Excite searches http://www.excite.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.

CAVEATS

Only returns results from Excite's "Web Results". Ignores all other sections of Excite's query results.

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

TESTING

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

AUTHOR

As of 1998-03-23, WWW::Search::Excite is maintained by Martin Thurn (MartinThurn@iname.com).

WWW::Search::Excite was originally written by Martin Thurn based on WWW::Search::HotBot.

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

2.01, 1999-07-13

1.12, 1999-06-29

updated test cases

1.10, 1999-06-11

fixed a BUG where returned URLs were garbled (maybe this was because www.excite.com changed their links)

1.08, 1998-11-06

www.excite.com changed their output format slightly (thank you Jim (jsmyser@bigfoot.com) for pointing it out!)

1.7, 1998-10-09

use new split_lines function

1.5

\n changed to \012 for MacPerl compatibility

1.4

Modified for new Excite output format.

1.2

First publicly-released version.

cpanm MTHURN/WWW-Search-2.04.tar.gz

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install MTHURN/WWW-Search-2.04.tar.gz