WWW::OpenSearch(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      WWW::OpenSearch(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::OpenSearch - Search A9 OpenSearch compatible engines

SYNOPSIS

	   use WWW::OpenSearch;

	   my $url = "http://bulkfeeds.net/opensearch.xml";
	   my $engine = WWW::OpenSearch->new($url);

	   my $name = $engine->description->ShortName;
	   my $tags = $engine->description->Tags;

	   # Perform search for "iPod"
	   my $response = $engine->search("iPod");
	   for my $item (@{$response->feed->items}) {
	       print $item->{description};
	   }

	   # Retrieve the next page of results
	   my $next_page = $response->next_page;
	   for my $item (@{$next_page->feed->items}) {
	       print $item->{description};
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       WWW::OpenSearch is a module to search A9's OpenSearch compatible search engines. See http://opensearch.a9.com/ for details.

CONSTRUCTOR

   new( $url )
       Constructs a new instance of WWW::OpenSearch using the given URL as the location of the engine's OpenSearch Description document
       (retrievable via the description_url accessor).

METHODS

   fetch_description( [ $url ] )
       Fetches the OpenSearch Descsription found either at the given URL or at the URL specified by the description_url accessor. Fetched
       description may be accessed via the description accessor.

   search( $query [, \%params] )
       Searches the engine for the given query using the given search parameters. Valid search parameters include:

       o   startPage

       o   totalResults

       o   startIndex

       o   itemsPerPage

       See http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/1.1/response/#elements for details.

   do_search( $url [, $method] )
       Performs a request for the given URL and returns a WWW::OpenSearch::Response object. Method defaults to 'GET'.

ACCESSORS

   description_url( [$description_url] )
   agent( [$agent] )
   description( [$description] )
AUTHOR

       Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>

       Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2005-2010 by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa and Brian Cassidy

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-05-25						      WWW::OpenSearch(3pm)