NAME¶

WWW::Search::WashPost - WWW::Search backend for searching www.washingtonpost.com

SYNOPSIS¶

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('WashPost');
  my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("japan prime minister");
  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
    { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }

DESCRIPTION¶

This class is a specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting searches on news at The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com.

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

NOTES¶

In the resulting WWW::SearchResult objects, the following elements will be set (in addition to the usual title, description, etc.):

source

Something like "Post" or a certain "Edition".

location

The page number of the print edition, e.g. "E05".

category

The type of item found, either "Article" or "Photo".

seller

The author or photographer.

SEE ALSO¶

To make new backends, see WWW::Search.

CAVEATS¶

This backend (and all its subclasses) only searches news stories from the last 14 days. (This is a restriction on the Washington Post website that we can not avoid.)

BUGS¶

Please tell the author if you find any!

AUTHOR¶

Martin Thurn <mthurn@cpan.org>

LICENSE¶

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

This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.