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WWW::Search::Lycos - class for searching Lycos
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- NAME
- SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- SEE ALSO
- BUGS
- TESTING
- AUTHOR
- LEGALESE
- VERSION HISTORY
- 2.09, 1999-12-26
- 2.08, 1999-12-22
- 2.07, 1999-12-10
- 2.05, 1999-12-03
- 2.04, 1999-10-22
- 2.03, 1999-10-05
- 2.02, 1999-09-30
- 2.01, 1999-07-13
- 1.04, 1999-04-30
- 1.02, 1998-12-10
WWW::Search::Lycos - class for searching Lycos
This module is not included with the standard ActivePerl distribution. It is available as a separate download using PPM.
use WWW::Search;
my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Lycos');
my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio");
$oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
print $oResult->url, "\n";
This class is a Lycos specialization of the WWW::Search manpage. It handles
making and interpreting Lycos-site searches http://www.Lycos.com.
This class exports no public interface; all interaction should
be done through the WWW::Search manpage objects.
www.lycos.com is sometimes slow to respond; but I have not had a
problem with the default timeout.
www.lycos.com does not give the score, date, nor size of the pages at
the resulting URLs; therefore change_date(), score(), and size() will
never have a value.
To make new back-ends, see the WWW::Search manpage.
Please tell the author if you find any!
This module adheres to the WWW::Search test mechanism.
See $TEST_CASES below.
As of 1998-12-07, WWW::Search::Lycos is maintained by Martin Thurn
(MartinThurn@iname.com)
WWW::Search::Lycos was originally written by Martin Thurn,
based on WWW::Search::Yahoo version 1.12 of 1998-10-22.
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.
If it is not listed here, then it was not a meaningful nor released revision.
output format fixes, and query string changes for searching Lycos.com (dbradford@bdctechnologies.com)
point to new path on lycos.com (thanks to David Bradford dbradford@bdctechnologies.com)
more output format fixes, and missing 'next' link for Sites
handle new url and new output format for Lycos::Sites.pm
use strip_tags();
extract real URL from www.lycos.com's redirection URL
now uses hash_to_cgi_string()
Now able to get Web Sites results via child module Sites.pm
Now uses lycos.com's advanced query format.
First public release after being adopted by Martin Thurn.
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