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- <H1><A NAME="name">NAME</A></H1>
- <P>WWW::Search::NorthernLight - class for searching NorthernLight</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="supportedplatforms">SUPPORTED PLATFORMS</A></H1>
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- <LI>Linux</LI>
- <LI>Solaris</LI>
- <LI>Windows</LI>
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- <H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
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- use WWW::Search;
- my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('NorthernLight');
- my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio");
- $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
- while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result()) {
- print $oResult->url, "\n";
- }</PRE>
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- <H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
- <P>This class is a NorthernLight specialization of WWW::Search.
- It handles making and interpreting NorthernLight searches
- <EM><A HREF="http://www.northernlight.com">http://www.northernlight.com</A></EM>.</P>
- <P>Northern Light supports full Boolean capability (AND,
- OR, NOT), including parenthetical ``expressions'', in
- all searches. There is no limit to the level of nesting
- which you can use in a query.</P>
- <P>This class exports no public interface; all interaction should
- be done through <A HREF="../../../../site/lib/WWW/Search.html">the WWW::Search manpage</A> objects.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="see also">SEE ALSO</A></H1>
- <P>To make new back-ends, see <A HREF="../../../../site/lib/WWW/Search.html">the WWW::Search manpage</A>.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="how does it work">HOW DOES IT WORK?</A></H1>
- <P><CODE>native_setup_search</CODE> is called (from <CODE>WWW::Search::setup_search</CODE>)
- before we do anything. It initializes our private variables (which
- all begin with underscore) and sets up a URL to the first results
- page in <CODE>{_next_url}</CODE>.</P>
- <P><CODE>native_retrieve_some</CODE> is called (from <CODE>WWW::Search::retrieve_some</CODE>)
- whenever more hits are needed. It calls <CODE>WWW::Search::http_request</CODE>
- to fetch the page specified by <CODE>{_next_url}</CODE>.
- It then parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to
- <CODE>{cache}</CODE>. If it finds a ``next'' button in the text,
- it sets <CODE>{_next_url}</CODE> to point to the page for the next
- set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate we''re done.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="testing">TESTING</A></H1>
- <P>This module adheres to the <CODE>WWW::Search</CODE> test suite mechanism.
- See $TEST_CASES below.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="author">AUTHOR</A></H1>
- <P>This Backend is will now be maintained and supported by Jim Smyser.
- Flames to: <<A HREF="mailto:jsmyser@bigfoot.com">jsmyser@bigfoot.com</A>></P>
- <P><CODE>WWW::Search::NorthernLight</CODE> was originally written by Andreas Borchert
- based on <CODE>WWW::Search::Excite</CODE>.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="legalese">LEGALESE</A></H1>
- <P>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.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="version history">VERSION HISTORY</A></H1>
- <P>2.04
- Mainly Tag stripping that was getting bad and causing undesirable
- formatting in the title and description return.</P>
- <P>2.03
- Next Page url change and weeding out a new edit search url.</P>
- <P>2.02
- Minor parsing change to get the new description line that had changed.</P>
- <P>2.01
- typo and new test mechanism</P>
- <P>1.06
- Slight reformat change.</P>
- <P>1.05
- Fixed 'next' page tag recognition, this changed slightly.
- Whitespace removal in description that was really BAD with
- some hits. Ignoring internal NorthernLight URL's.</P>
- <P>1.04
- Slight adjustments to formatting. Returning score and date
- with description.</P>
- <P>1.03
- Slight format change by NL that was making next page hits flakey
- corrected. Misc. code clean up.</P>
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