CPAN testers API

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

Hi Monks,

Is there a module/API to search CPAN Testers reports? I need to compare a version of a particular dependency between all the PASS and FAIL results for a given distribution. I can scrape the pages, but with more than thousand reports, a less stressing solution would be nice.

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Re: CPAN testers API by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 14, 2015 at 17:45 UTC
CPAN::Testers has a graphic that points me to http://stats.cpantesters.org/, which in turn points to http://devel.cpantesters.org/#database, which seems to indicate that the (whole) database is for download (2Gb here) as an SQLite file. I don't see a more convenient way to query things per-distribution though.	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN testers API by barbie (Deacon) on Mar 01, 2015 at 22:44 UTC
Do not use the SQLite download, it is incomplete and no longer maintained. The links will be removed shorly. Secondly, please use CPAN::Testers::WWW::Reports::Query::Report to download reports. Use the YAML/JSON file for the specific distribution, then download the reports you need. Saves a lot of screenscraping, and is a lot less of a drain on the server ;) PS: I would have posted a comment on blogs.perl, but sadly I have been banned from doing so it would seem :( -- Barbie \| Birmingham Perl Mongers CPAN Testers: Blog \| Reports \| Wiki \| Statistics	[reply]