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ruby programming

www-search

Alpha version of something similar to Perl's WWW::Search. The following modules are currently available (author in brackets):

• Google [rjp]
• Altavista [rjp]
• ISBN -- searches Amazon for the matching book [rjp]

require 'Search'
s=Search.new('Altavista', 15) # 15 results from Altavista, please!
s.go('ruby programming').each { |x|
	printf "%40s %40s\n", x.title, x.link
}

An example script that looks up ISBN's