Provided by: libwww-opensearch-perl_0.17-2_all
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: • startPage • totalResults • startIndex • 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 2005-2013 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.