man WWW::Search::HotBot () - backend for searching hotbot.lycos.com

NAME

WWW::Search::HotBot - backend for searching hotbot.lycos.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('HotBot');
  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 HotBot specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting HotBot searches http://www.hotbot.com via the Inktomi index.

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

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

AUTHOR

As of 1998-02-02, CWWWW::Search::HotBot is maintained by Martin Thurn (mthurn@cpan.org).

CWWWW::Search::HotBot was originally written by Wm. L. Scheding, based on CWWWW::Search::AltaVista.

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

If it is not listed here, then it was not a meaningful nor released revision.

2.28, 2003-02-20

MAJOR overhaul for new www.hotbot.com

2.27, 2002-07-11

FIX for mangled sponsored links (by ignoring them!)

2.25, 2001-12-17

FIX for new URL output format with date; delete unused code; get next page of results

2.24, 2001-10

Massive re-write using new website parameters and HTML::TreeBuilder

2.23, 2001-07-19

Tweak pattern for result-count; set agent_name to something that works

2.21, 2000-12-11

new URL for advanced search

2.19, 2000-10-11

added AM1=MC to all URLs in GUI mode (hotbot.com seems to randomly add this if you search manually at their site)

2.18, 2000-06-26

fix for only one page of gui results; and next link in new place

2.17, 2000-05-24

was still missing first URL of non-gui(?) results!

2.16, 2000-05-17

was missing first URL of gui results

2.15, 2000-04-03

fixed gui_query()

2.14, 2000-02-01

testing now uses WWW::Search::Test module

2.13, 2000-01-31

bugfix: was missing title

2.12, 2000-01-19

new function gui_query(), and handle output from it

2.10, 1999-12-22

handle new result format

2.09, 1999-12-15

handle new result count format

2.08, 1999-12-10

handle new output format

2.07, 1999-11-12

BUGFIX for domain-limited URL parsing (thanks to Leon Brocard)

2.06, 1999-10-18

www.hotbot.com changed their output format slightly; now uses strip_tags() on title and description

2.05, 1999-10-05

now uses hash_to_cgi_string(); new test cases

2.03, 1999-09-28

BUGFIX: was missing the Next page link sometimes.

2.02, 1999-08-17

Now is able to parse URL-only format (i.e. {'DE' => 0}) and brief description format (i.e. {'DE' => 1}) if the user so desires.

1.34, 1999-07-01

New test cases.

1.32, 1999-06-20

Now unescapes the URLs before returning them.

1.31, 1999-06-11

www.hotbot.com changed their output format ever so slightly. (Thanks to Jim jsmyser at bigfoot.com for pointing it out)

1.30, 1999-04-12

BUG FIX: results for domain-limited search were not parsed. (Thanks to Christopher York yorkc at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu for pointing it out)

1.29, 1999-02-22

www.hotbot.com changed their output format. (Thanks to Tim Chklovski timc at mit.edu for pointing it out)

1.27, 1998-11-06

HotBot changed their output format(?). HotBot.pm now uses hotbot.com's text-only search results format. Minor documentation changes.

1.25, 1998-09-11

HotBot changed their output format ever so slightly. Documentation added for all known HotBot query options!

1.23

Better documentation for boolean queries. (Thanks to Jason Titus jason_titus at odsnet.com)

1.22

www.hotbot.com changed their output format.

1.21