WWW::Search::HotFiles 1.072

WWW::Search::HotFiles is a class for searching ZDnet HotFiles.

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