WWW::Search::HotFiles3pm

Usage

Overview

Class for searching ZDnet HotFiles (shareware, freeware) via Lycos. http://www.hotfiles.lycos.com.

If you use the raw method for this backend you will need to include a "<p>" at end of your print statement, example:
print $result->raw(), "<p>\n";

This is so that each result returned will have a HTML break since the HTML is being extracted from tables, and, there is no <p> or <br> trailing returned HITS to properly format the results. No BIG deal really.

Print optioins: Using score will return nice star images for rating purposes at end of each description line for each HIT if desired.

Using index_date will return the files date.

Raw returns description, star rating image, date, downloads, OS version.

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

Usage example

 One of several print samples for this backend (this is a WebSearch
 example):

 print <<END;

 <FONT SIZE=2><B>$count. <a href="$prefix$_">$result->{'title'}</A></B><BR>
 $result->{'description'} 
 $result->{'index_date'} $result->{'score'}<P></SMALL></FONT>

 END

Testing

HotFiles.pm adheres to the WWW::Search test mechanism. See $TEST_CASES below.