WebSearch - phpMan

NAME
    WebSearch - a web-searching application demonstrating WWW::Search

SYNOPSIS
    WebSearch [-m MaxCount] [-e SearchEngine] [-o option] [-o option...]
    [-ardvV] query

DESCRIPTION
    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.

    The program supports a number of search engines; use WebSearch --list to
    see which backends are installed.

    A more sophisticated client is AutoSearch which maintains a change list
    of found objects.

    For examples and hints about searches, see AutoSearch.

OPTIONS
    WebSearch uses Getopt::Long, so you can use double-minus with long
    option names, or single-minus with one-letter abbreviations.

    --engine e_name, -e e_name
            The string e_name is the name of (the module for) the desired
            search engine. Capitalization matters. See `perldoc WWW::Search`
            to find out what the default is (probably Null).

            Use --list to get a list of installed backends.

    --gui, -g
            Perform the search to mimic the default browser-based search.
            Not implemented for all backends, see the documentation for each
            backend.

    --list  Prints to STDERR a \n-separated list of installed backends.

    --max max_count, -m max_count
            Specify the maximum number of hits to retrieve.

    --option o_string, -o o_string
            Specify a search-engine option in the form 'key=value' (or just
            'key'). Can be repeated for as many options are needed. Keys can
            be repeated.

    --count, -c
            As the first line of output, print the approximate hit count. As
            the last line of output, print the actual hit count.

    --terse, -t
            Do not print any URLs. Only useful if you also specify --count.
            If you specify --terse but not --count, there will be no output
            no matter how many hits are found!

    --all, -a
            For each hit result, print all the URLs that the search engine
            indicated were equivalent to it. (Some URLs may refer to the
            same object.) Can be combined with --verbose; can not be
            combined with --raw.

    --raw, -r
            For each hit result, print the raw HTML. Not implemented for all
            backends.

    --verbose, -v
            Verbose mode. Enumerate the returned URLs and show the
            description, score, date, etc. for each.

    --VERSION, -V
            Print version information and exit immediately.

    --debug <i>, -d <i>
            Display back-end debugging information (with debug level <i>)

    --host <hostname.sub.domain>
            Set the _host option for the WWW::Search object
            (backend-dependent).

    --port <i>
            Set the _port option for the WWW::Search object
            (backend-dependent).

    --username <bbunny>
            Set the username with which to login to the backend.

    --password <c4rr0t5>
            Set the password with which to login to the backend.

    --lwpdebug, -l
            Display low-level libwww-perl debugging information

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
    The environment variable http_proxy (or HTTP_PROXY) specifies a proxy,
    if any.

SEE ALSO
    For the library, see WWW::Search.

    For a more sophisticated client, see AutoSearch.

AUTHOR
    "WebSearch" was written by John Heidemann, <johnh AT isi.edu>. "WebSearch"
    is maintained by Martin Thurn, <mthurn AT cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 1996-1997 University of Southern California. All rights
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