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HotBot(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HotBot(3)
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.
SEE ALSO
To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.
BUGS
Please tell the author if you find any!
AUTHOR
As of 1998-02-02, "WWW::Search::HotBot" is maintained by Martin Thurn (mthurn AT cpan.org).
"WWW::Search::HotBot" was originally written by Wm. L. Scheding, based on
"WWW::Search::AltaVista".
LEGALESE
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUD-
ING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PAR-
TICULAR 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
www.hotbot.com changed their output format.
1.17
www.hotbot.com changed their search script location and output format on 1998-05-21.
Also, as many as 6 fields of each SearchResult are now filled in.
1.13
Fixed the maximum_to_retrieve off-by-one problem. Updated test cases.
1.12
www.hotbot.com does not do truncation. Therefore, if the query contains truncation charac-
ters (i.e. '*' at end of words), they are simply deleted before the query is sent to
www.hotbot.com.
1.11, 1998-02-05
Fixed and revamped by Martin Thurn.
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