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.
NOTES
www.excite.com does not report the approximate result count.
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!
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
2.13, 2000-10-10
BUGFIX for missing result-count sometimes; BUGFIX for missing END of results; BUGFIX for mis-parsing URLs
2.12, 2000-09-18
BUGFIX for still missing the result-count; BUGFIX for missing all results sometimes
2.11, 2000-09-05
BUGFIX for still missing some header formats
2.07, 2000-03-29
BUGFIX for sometimes missing header (and getting NO results)
2.06, 2000-03-02
BUGFIX for bungled next_url
2.05, 2000-02-08
testing now uses WWW::Search::Test module; www.excite.com only allows (up to) 50 per page (and no odd numbers)
2.04, 2000-01-28
www.excite.com changed their output format slightly
2.03, 1999-10-20
www.excite.com changed their output format slightly; use strip_tags() on title and description results
2.02, 1999-10-05
now uses hash_to_cgi_string()
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.