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Plankton has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Wise Monks

I want to automate the downloading of the .tar.gz install file for a list of CPAN Modules. This is easy for the module Algorithm::Interval2Prefix. Simply append Algorithm-Interval2Prefix to http://search.cpan.org/dist/ but this doesn't work other modules like Apache::Session::File. Is there some feature on the cpan.org website that I'm not aware of?

Thanks

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Re: Programmatic way to get CPAN Module tarballs?
by ctilmes (Vicar) on Jan 13, 2010 at 17:43 UTC
    Try the CPAN module itself.

    CPAN::Distribution::get might do the trick.

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      thanks! exactly what I needed!
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        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CPAN;

my @cpanmods = qw / 
Algorithm::Interval2Prefix \
Apache::Session::File  \
... other modules go here
XML::Generator
/;

for my $cpanmod ( @cpanmods ) {
        for my $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module", $cpanmod )) {
                print "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/" . $mod
+->{'RO'}{'CPAN_FILE'} . "\n";
        }
}

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Re: Programmatic way to get CPAN Module tarballs?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 13, 2010 at 17:44 UTC
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