NAME
WWW::Search::Excite::News - class for searching ExciteNews
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.
SEE ALSO
To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.
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}.
native_retrieve_some is called (from WWW::Search::retrieve_some) whenever more hits are needed. It calls the LWP library to fetch the page specified by {_next_url}. It parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to {cache}. If it finds a ``next'' button in the text, it sets {_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:
Copyright (c) 1996-1998 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.