WWW::Search::PLweb(3pm)

WWW::Search::PLweb3pm

Class for searching pls plweb search engine

Usage

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

Overview

This class is a PLweb specialization of WWW::Search. It queries and interprets searches based on PLweb, by PLS http://www.pls.com/.

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

This software assumes that you're using the default output format for a PLweb search. It should look like this:

  VAL DOCUMENT DB SIZE
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  388 Document1 foo 1122 ...

Options

This search supports standard WWW::Search arguments

search_url

The PLweb URL to search. On unix this usually looks like http://somehost/cgi-bin/iopcode.pl

search_args

The arguments used for the search engine, separate them by &.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0

Author

"WWW::Search::PLweb" is written by Paul Lindner, <[email protected]>

Bugs

Things not supported: $result->raw()

From libwww-search-perl 2.24-3 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.