search1p
A web-searching application demonstrating www::search
Usage
search [-e
SearchEngine]
[-o
option]
[-o
option ...]
[-va]
query
Overview
This program is provides a command-line interface to web search engines, listing all URLs found for a given query. This program also provides a simple demonstration of the WWW::Search Perl library for web searches.
Currently the program does searches on AltaVista http://www.altavista.digital.com. We plan to expand WWW::Search to support other search engines in late 1996.
We plan to provide more sophisticated services using WWW::Search. One service is an periodic service where we automatically search the web for relevant documents. A prototype of this system (not yet using WWW::Search) is available at http://www.isi.edu/lsam/tools/index.html with sample output at http://www.isi.edu/div7/ib/jog/index.html.
Options
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-e -
Specify the search engine. Capitalization matters. Currently AltaVista, Lycos, and HotBot are possible engines. See the WWW::Search manpage for a possibly more complete list of supported engines.
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-o -
Specify a search-engine option.
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-v -
Verbose mode. Enumerate the returned URLs.
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-a -
Return all URLs. Some different URLs may refer to the same object.
Releases
Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo).