WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL3pm

Usage

  require WWW::Search;
  $search = new WWW::Search('AltaVista::NL');

Overview

This class is an modified version of the AltaVista specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Dutch AltaVista searches http://nl.altavista.com.

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

Options

The default is for simple web queries.

search_url=URL

Specifies who to query with the AltaVista protocol. The default is at "http://nl.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query";

search_debug, search_parse_debug, search_ref Specified at WWW::Search.

pg=aq

Do advanced queries. (It defaults to simple queries.)

Public methods

There are none defined here; see WWW::Search.

Private methods

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're done.

AUTHOR and CURRENT VERSION

"WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL" is written and maintained by Erik Smit, <[email protected]>.

The best place to obtain "WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL" is from Martin Thurn's WWW::Search releases on CPAN. Because AltaVista sometimes changes its format in between his releases, sometimes more up-to-date versions can be found at http://www.zoiah.nl/programming/AltaVistaNL/index.html.