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# EuroSeek.pm
# by Jim Smyser
# Copyright (c) 2000 by Jim Smyser
# $Id: Euroseek.pm,v 1.2 2000/04/01 01:45:12 jims Exp $
=head1 NAME
WWW::Search::EuroSeek - class for searching EuroSeek
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Search;
%opts = (
ilang => param(lang),
domain => param(domain),
);
my $search = new WWW::Search('EuroSeek');
$search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query),\%opts);
$search->maximum_to_retrieve('100');
while (my $result = $search->next_result())
{
print $result->url, "\n";
}
=head1 DESCRIPTION
EuroSeek is a class specialization of WWW::Search.
It handles making and interpreting EuroSeek searches
This class exports no public interface; all interaction should
be done through L<WWW::Search> objects. See SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS
for usage insight.
=head1 NOTES
EuroSeek does not seem to return uniform number of hits per page.
Seem like only 8 or 9 are returned per page unlike standard 10+.
=head1 OPTIONS
WebSearch Example:
-o ilang=english -o domain=ru
LANG:
<option value="world">any language
<option value="bulgarski">Bulgarian
<option value="cĂȘch">Czech
<option value="welsh">Welsh
<option value="dansk">Danish
<option value="deutsch">German
<option value="eesti">Estonian
<option value="elivika">Greek
<option value="english">English
<option value="español">Spanish
<option value="esperanto">Esperanto
<option value="français">French
<option value="hrvatski">Croatian
<option value="Ă­slensku">Icelandic
<option value="italiano">Italian
<option value="latviski">Latvian
<option value="lietuvisku">Lithuanian
<option value="magyar">Hungarian
<option value="makedonski">Macedonian
<option value="nederlands">Dutch
<option value="norsk">Norwegian
<option value="polski">Polish
<option value="portuguĂȘs">Portuguese
<option value="romana">Romanian
<option value="russkij">Russian
<option value="slovak">Slovak
<option value="slovensk">Slovenian
<option value="suomi">Finnish
<option value="svenska">Swedish
<option value="turkce">Turkish
DOMAIN:
<option value="world">=European Countries=
<option value="al">Albania
<option value="ad">Andorra
<option value="at">Austria
<option value="be">Belgium
<option value="ba">Bosnia/Herzegowina
<option value="bg">Bulgaria
<option value="hr">Croatia
<option value="cy">Cyprus
<option value="cz">Czech Republic
<option value="dk">Denmark
<option value="ee">Estonia
<option value="fi">Finland
<option value="fr">France
<option value="de">Germany
<option value="gr">Greece
<option value="gl">Greenland
<option value="hu">Hungary
<option value="is">Iceland
<option value="ie">Ireland
<option value="il">Israel
<option value="it">Italy
<option value="lv">Latvia
<option value="li">Liechtenstein
<option value="lt">Lithuania
<option value="lu">Luxembourg
<option value="mk">Macedonia
<option value="mc">Monaco
<option value="nl">Netherlands
<option value="no">Norway
<option value="pl">Poland
<option value="pt">Portugal
<option value="ro">Romania
<option value="ru">Russian Federation
<option value="sk">Slovakia Republic
<option value="si">Slovenia
<option value="es">Spain
<option value="se">Sweden
<option value="ch">Switzerland
<option value="tr">Turkey
<option value="ua">Ukraine
<option value="gb">United Kingdom (GB)
<option value="uk">United Kingdom (UK)
<option value="va">Vatican State
<option value="yu">Federal Republic Yugoslavia
<option value="">=Regions=
<option value="scandinavia">Scandinavia
<option value="europe">Europe
<option value="namerica">North America
<option value="samerica">South America
<option value="asia">Asia
<option value="au">Australia
<option value="africa">Africa
<option value="">=Special Domains=
<option value="com">Companies
<option value="mil">Military
<option value="edu">Universities
<option value="gov">Government
<option value="org">Organizations
<option value="net">Networks
=head1 SEE ALSO
To make new back-ends, see L<WWW::Search>.
=head1 AUTHOR
C<WWW::Search::EuroSeek> is written by Jim Smyser
Author e-mail <jsmyser@bigfoot.com>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1996-1999 University of Southern California.
All rights reserved.
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.
=cut
#'
#####################################################################
require Exporter;
@EXPORT = qw();
@EXPORT_OK = qw();
@ISA = qw(WWW::Search Exporter);
$VERSION = '1.02';
use Carp ();
use WWW::Search(qw(generic_option strip_tags));
sub native_setup_search {
my($self, $native_query, $native_options_ref) = @_;
$self->{_debug} = $native_options_ref->{'search_debug'};
$self->{_debug} = 2 if ($native_options_ref->{'search_parse_debug'});
$self->{_debug} = 0 if (!defined($self->{_debug}));
$self->{agent_e_mail} = 'jsmyser@bigfoot.com';
$self->user_agent('user');
$self->{_next_to_retrieve} = 0;
if (!defined($self->{_options})) {
$self->{'search_base_url'} = 'http://www.euroseek.com';
$self->{_options} = {
'search_url' => 'http://www.euroseek.com/query',
'query' => $native_query,
};
}
my $options_ref = $self->{_options};
if (defined($native_options_ref))
{
# Copy in new options.
foreach (keys %$native_options_ref)
{
$options_ref->{$_} = $native_options_ref->{$_};
} # foreach
} # if
# Process the options.
my($options) = '';
foreach (sort keys %$options_ref)
{
# printf STDERR "option: $_ is " . $options_ref->{$_} . "\n";
next if (generic_option($_));
$options .= $_ . '=' . $options_ref->{$_} . '&';
}
chop $options;
# Finally figure out the url.
$self->{_next_url} = $self->{_options}{'search_url'} .'?'. $self->hash_to_cgi_string($self->{_options});
} # native_setup_search
# private
sub native_retrieve_some
{
my ($self) = @_;
print STDERR "**Getting Some**\n" if $self->{_debug};
# Fast exit if already done:
return undef if (!defined($self->{_next_url}));
$self->user_agent_delay if 1 < $self->{'_next_to_retrieve'};
# Get some:
print STDERR "**Requesting (",$self->{_next_url},")\n" if $self->{_debug};
my($response) = $self->http_request('GET', $self->{_next_url});
$self->{response} = $response;
if (!$response->is_success)
{
return undef;
}
$self->{'_next_url'} = undef;
print STDERR "**Found Some\n" if $self->{_debug};
# parse the output
my ($HEADER, $HITS, $DESC, $LOC, $DATE) = qw(HE HI DE LO DA);
my $state = $HEADER;
my $hit = ();
my $hits_found = 0;
foreach ($self->split_lines($response->content()))
{
next if m@^$@; # short circuit for blank lines
print STDERR " * $state ===$_=== " if 2 <= $self->{'_debug'};
if (m|\(of&nbsp;(\d+)\)|i) {
$self->approximate_result_count($1);
print STDERR "**Approx. Count\n" if ($self->{_debug});
$state = $HITS;
}
if ($state eq $HITS &&
m|<TD COLSPAN.*?><.*?>.*?<A HREF=".*?"><IMG SRC.*?>.*?<A HREF=".*?url=(.*)">(.*)</A>|i)
{
print STDERR "**Found a URL\n" if 2 <= $self->{_debug};
my ($url,$title) = ($1,$2);
if (defined($hit))
{
push(@{$self->{cache}}, $hit);
};
$hit = new WWW::SearchResult;
$hit->add_url(uri_unescape($url));
$hits_found++;
$hit->title(strip_tags($title));
$state = $DESC;
}
elsif ($state eq $DESC &&
m|<TD width.*?><FONT FACE.*?>(.*)</FONT></TD>|i)
{
$hit->description($1);
$state = $LOC;
}
elsif ($state eq $LOC &&
m|<TD ALIGN.*?><.*?>&nbsp;\[\s(.*)\]&nbsp;</FONT><BR>|i)
{
$hit->location(strip_tags($1));
$state = $DATE;
}
elsif ($state eq $DATE &&
m|<FONT COLOR.*?>&nbsp;\[\s(.*)$|i)
{
$hit->index_date($1);
$state = $HITS;
}
elsif ($state eq $HITS && m|<b><A HREF="(.*)">Next.*?</A>|i)
{
print STDERR "**Found 'next' Tag\n" if 2 <= $self->{_debug};
my $sURL = $1;
$self->{'_next_url'} = $self->{'search_base_url'} . $sURL;
print STDERR " **Next Tag is: ", $self->{'_next_url'}, "\n" if 2 <= $self->{_debug};
$state = $HITS;
}
else
{
print STDERR "**Nothing Matched\n" if 2 <= $self->{_debug};
}
}
if (defined($hit)) {
push(@{$self->{cache}}, $hit);
}
return $hits_found;
} # native_retrieve_some
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