Yahoo! search interface
Yahoo! search interface
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Create a class for searching Yahoo results. It must implement a Next Page method, and read URL, Title and Content from results. Instance lenght should return number of results.
C#
<lang csharp>using System; using System.Net; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq;
class YahooSearch {
private string query; private string content; private int page = 1;
public YahooSearch(string query) { this.query = query; this.content = new WebClient().DownloadString("http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=" + query); }
public YahooSearch(string query, int page) { this.query = query; this.page = page; this.content = new WebClient().DownloadString(String.Format("http://search.yahoo.com/search?p={0}&b={1}", query, ((this.page - 1) * 10) + 1)); }
public long Length {
get {
return long.Parse(new Regex(".+? of (.+?) for").
Match(this.content).Groups[1].Value.Replace(",", ""));
}
}
public YahooResult[] Results { get { ArrayList results = new ArrayList();
foreach (Match e in new Regex("<a class=\"yschttl spt\" href=\".+?\" >(.+?)</a>
(.+?)
(.+?)").Matches(this.content)) {
string rurl = e.Groups[3].Value. Replace("", "").Replace("", "").Replace("", ""). Replace(" ",""); string rtitle = e.Groups[1].Value. Replace("", "").Replace("", "").Replace(" ",""); string rcontent = e.Groups[2].Value. Replace("", "").Replace("", "").Replace("...", ""). Replace(" ","");
Console.WriteLine(rurl); results.Add(new YahooResult(rurl, rtitle, rcontent)); } return (YahooResult[])results.ToArray(typeof(YahooResult)); } }
public YahooSearch NextPage() { return new YahooSearch(this.query, this.page + 1); }
public YahooSearch GetPage(int page) { return new YahooSearch(this.query, page); }
}
class YahooResult {
public string URL { get; set; } public string Title { get; set; } public string Content { get; set; }
public YahooResult(string url, string title, string content) { this.URL = url; this.Title = title; this.Content = content; }
}
//Usage:
class Prog {
static void Main() { YahooSearch x = new YahooSearch("test"); Console.WriteLine(x.Results[0].Title); //Return first result title. }
}</lang>