---
name: "WWW::Search::Excite"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-search-perl"
version: "2.24-3"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/WWW::Search::Excite"
---

# WWW::Search::Excite(3pm)

WWW::Search::Excite - backend for searching www.excite.com

```
  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Excite');
  my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio");
  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
    { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }
```

This class is a Excite specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Excite searches *http://www.excite.com*. This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through the WWW::Search manpage objects. To make new back-ends, see the WWW::Search manpage. Only returns results from Excite's "Web Results". Ignores all other sections of Excite's query results. Please tell the author if you find any! As of 1998-03-23, `"WWW::Search::Excite"` is maintained by Martin Thurn (MartinThurn@iname.com). `"WWW::Search::Excite"` was originally written by Martin Thurn based on `"WWW::Search::HotBot"`. 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.\
 **2.19, 2001-08-29** Handle yet another new output format\
 **2.17, 2001-05-17** Handle new output format\
 **2.16, 2000-11-02** No change in functionality, but parser was totally rewritten using HTML::TreeBuilder\
 **2.14, 2000-** BUGFIX for missing result-count sometimes;\
 **2.13, 2000-10-10** BUGFIX for missing result-count sometimes; BUGFIX for missing END of results; BUGFIX for mis-parsing URLs\
 **2.12, 2000-09-18** BUGFIX for still missing the result-count; BUGFIX for missing all results sometimes\
 **2.11, 2000-09-05** BUGFIX for still missing some header formats\
 **2.07, 2000-03-29** BUGFIX for sometimes missing header (and getting NO results)\
 **2.06, 2000-03-02** BUGFIX for bungled next\_url\
 **2.05, 2000-02-08** testing now uses WWW::Search::Test module; www.excite.com only allows (up to) 50 per page (and no odd numbers) \
 **2.04, 2000-01-28** www.excite.com changed their output format slightly\
 **2.03, 1999-10-20** www.excite.com changed their output format slightly; use *strip\_tags()* on title and description results\
 **2.02, 1999-10-05** now uses *hash\_to\_cgi\_string()*\
 **1.12, 1999-06-29** updated test cases\
 **1.10, 1999-06-11** fixed a BUG where returned URLs were garbled (maybe this was because www.excite.com changed their links)\
 **1.08, 1998-11-06** www.excite.com changed their output format slightly (thank you Jim (jsmyser@bigfoot.com) for pointing it out!)\
 **1.7, 1998-10-09** use new split\_lines function\
 **1.5** \\n changed to \\012 for MacPerl compatibility\
 **1.4** Modified for new Excite output format.\
 **1.2** First publicly-released version.