WWW::S...:PubMed(3pm)

πŸ’– WWW::Search::PubMed β€” the manual, but make it cute πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this is the page for WWW::Search::PubMed, section 3pm of the Perl manual. it's a whole vibe and it's about to make your abstract-searching era iconic 🧚✨


✨ NAME ✨

WWW::Search::PubMed β€” search the NCBI PubMed abstract database. that's it, that's the girl. πŸŽ€


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the whole entire flex, copy it, love it, run it:

 use WWW::Search;
 my $s = new WWW::Search ('PubMed');
 $s->native_query( 'ACGT' );
 while (my $r = $s->next_result) {
  print $r->title . "\n";
  print $r->description . "\n";
 }

look at her go πŸ’… no notes.


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

so like β€” WWW::Search::PubMed gives you a WWW::Search backend for searching the NCBI/PubMed abstracts database. it's the plug-in that makes WWW::Search speak PubMed. that's literally the whole job and she does it. periodt. πŸ‘‘


⭐ VERSION ⭐

this doc describes WWW::Search::PubMed version 1.004, released 31 October 2007. yes she's vintage, yes she still ate. πŸ”₯


πŸ’œ REQUIRES πŸ’œ

you're gonna need these besties in the group chat or nothing works:

  • L<WWW::Search|WWW::Search>
  • L<XML::DOM|XML::DOM>

ngl, install them first. iykyk. πŸ™ˆ


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

more lore if you're obsessed (and you should be):

go read them, it's giving research era πŸ“šβœ¨


Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Gregory Todd Williams. All rights reserved.

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay, generous queen πŸ’–


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

Gregory Todd Williams "<gwilliams@cpan.org>" β€” the main character who wrote all this, we stan 🫢


lowkey reminder: all the flags, names, versions and links above are exactly as the original says them. don't come for me, i just added sparkle ✨

and that's the whole page babes β€” this was perl v5.30.3, dated 2020-09-10, filed under WWW::S...:PubMed(3pm). mwah, study safe, bye πŸ’…πŸŒΈ