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Re^3: Goodbye search.cpan.org

by taint (Chaplain)
on Jun 12, 2018 at 15:33 UTC ( [id://1216475]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Goodbye search.cpan.org
in thread Goodbye search.cpan.org

I'd like to implement search.cpan.org

In fact, so much so, That I picked up an appropriately named domain, created an identical (search) page. Created a CPAN mirror ( soon to be official ). All that's left (and this is pretty important) is the search implementation.
Time is running short. The 25th is drawing near. Anyone willing to help; suggest how I might best (re)create the search implementation. As I understand it, it's not open(source), or available. :-(

IOW As I'd really like to get this right the first time. Any suggestions, pointers, ... greatly appreciated!

¡λɐp ʇɑəɹ⅁ ɐ əʌɐɥ puɐ ʻꜱdləɥ ꜱᴉɥʇ ədoH

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Re^4: Goodbye search.cpan.org
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2018 at 18:14 UTC
    I'd like to implement search.cpan.org

    Thank you very very much!

    All that's left (and this is pretty important) is the search implementation.

    Forget the search engine. Since meta is the hub just cheat and use their API!

    github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api/blob/master/docs/API-docs.md

      Thanks for the reply (and link) !

      I've examined Gabor Szabo' SCO
      source:
      MetaCPAN-SCO
      his article:
      Building an open source clone of search.cpan.org using the MetaCPAN API
      which looks promising. But seems to require running a service on it's own port. Which I'd like to avoid. While I guess I could (re)process metacpans data. That seems grossly inefficient, and slow. especially given I'm already running a mirror. Seems it'd be a whole lot smarter to simply pull the data from my own copy and process that. Maybe populating a DB with it, and pulling it from there. This lead me to:
      App::CPAN::Search
      and
      Package::Locator
      but they're more Package centric, rather than: module | dist | author , as search, and metacpan do
      like:
      CPAN::SQLite
      but I don't think it'll scale well. But there's also:
      CPAN::Search::Lite
      which seems a bit closer, and might scale better, as well.

      Anyway, that's as far as I've managed so far. But was hoping to I might find a quick "drop in" replacement I might implement.

      Thanks again!

      ¡λɐp ʇɑəɹ⅁ ɐ əʌɐɥ puɐ ʻꜱdləɥ ꜱᴉɥʇ ədoH

        Wow! I didn't know you could just download one. If you want it to scale this sounds like a job for Apache2::CPAN::Search from the CPAN::Search::Lite dist.

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