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WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL - class for searching the dutch version of Alta Vista

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       This class is an modified version of the AltaVista specialization of WWW::Search.  It handles making and interpreting Dutch AltaVista
       searches http://nl.altavista.com.

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

OPTIONS

       The default is for simple web queries.

       search_url=URL
	       Specifies who to query with the AltaVista protocol.  The default is at "http://nl.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query";

       search_debug, search_parse_debug, search_ref Specified at WWW::Search.
       pg=aq   Do advanced queries.  (It defaults to simple queries.)

PUBLIC METHODS

       There are none defined here; see WWW::Search.

PRIVATE METHODS

   native_setup_search
       This private method does the heavy lifting after you call native_query().

   native_retrieve_some
       This private method does the heavy lifting of fetching and parsing web pages.

SEE ALSO

       To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search,

HOW DOES IT WORK
?
       "native_setup_search" is called before we do anything.  It initializes our private variables (which all begin with underscores) and sets up
       a URL to the first results page in "{_next_url}".

       "native_retrieve_some" is called (from "WWW::Search::retrieve_some") whenever more hits are needed.  It calls the LWP library to fetch the
       page specified by "{_next_url}".  It parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to "{cache}".	If it finds a ``next'' button in
       the text, it sets "{_next_url}" to point to the page for the next set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate we're done.

AUTHOR and CURRENT VERSION
       "WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL" is written and maintained by Erik Smit, <zoiah@zoiah.nl>.

       The best place to obtain "WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL" is from Martin Thurn's WWW::Search releases on CPAN.  Because AltaVista sometimes
       changes its format in between his releases, sometimes more up-to-date versions can be found at
       http://www.zoiah.nl/programming/AltaVistaNL/index.html.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1996-1998 University of Southern California.  All rights reserved.

       Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated
       in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge
       that the software was developed by the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute.  The name of the University may
       not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

       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.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-02					   WWW::Search::AltaVista::NL(3pm)

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WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate - backend for searching www.ebay.com, with results sorted with "items ending first"

SYNOPSIS

	 use WWW::Search;
	 my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay::ByEndDate');
	 my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("C-10 carded Yakface");
	 $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
	 while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
	   { print $oResult->url, "
"; }

DESCRIPTION

       This class is a Ebay specialization of WWW::Search.  It handles making and interpreting Ebay searches http://www.ebay.com.

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

NOTES

       The calling program must ensure that the Date::Manip module is able to determine the local timezone.  The easiest way is to set the
       environment variable TZ, or by calling &Date_Init().  See the documentation of Date::Manip.

       The search is done against CURRENT running auctions only.

       The query is applied to TITLES only.

       The results are ordered auctions ending soon first (order of increasing auction ending date).

       In the resulting WWW::Search::Result objects, the description field consists of a human-readable combination (joined with semicolon-space)
       of the Item Number; number of bids; and high bid amount (or starting bid amount).

       In the WWW::Search::Result objects, the change_date field contains the auction ending date & time in ISO 8601 format; i.e.
       year-month-dayThour:minute:second.

SEE ALSO

       To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

CAVEATS

BUGS

       Please tell the author if you find any!

AUTHOR

       Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", <http://tinyurl.com/nn67z>.

LEGALESE

       Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn

       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.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-02					 WWW::Search::Ebay::ByEndDate(3pm)
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