NAME

WWW::Search::Excite::News - class for searching ExciteNews

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

Windows

This module is not included with the standard ActivePerl distribution. It is available as a separate download using PPM.

SYNOPSIS

require WWW::Search; $search = new WWW::Search('Excite::News');

DESCRIPTION

Class for searching Excite News http://www.excite.com. Excite has one of the best news bot on the web.

Following results returned for printing are:

$result->{'description'} will return description if any $result->{'source'} articles news source $result->{'date'} articles date

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

HOW DOES IT WORK?

native_setup_search is called before we do anything. It initializes our private variables (which all begin with underscores) and sets up a URL to the first results page in {_next_url}.


C<native_retrieve_some> is called (from C<WWW::Search::retrieve_some>)
whenever more hits are needed.  It calls the LWP library
to fetch the page specified by C<{_next_url}>.
It parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to
C<{cache}>.  If it finds a ``next'' button in the text,
it sets C<{_next_url}> to point to the page for the next
set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate we are done.

AUTHOR

Maintained by Jim Smyser <jsmyser@bigfoot.com>

TESTING

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

VERSION HISTORY

2.03, 2000-03-21

New format changes

2.02, 1999-10-5

Misc. formatting changes

2.01, 1999-07-13

New test mechanism

COPYRIGHT

The original parts from John Heidemann are subject to following copyright notice:


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.

WWW::Search::Excite::News - class for searching ExciteNews