Sometimes I wonder how popular a particular module is. How many times a module is downloaded from cpan or one of its mirrors would suggest how popular a module is. I know some people could download a module and never use it or delete it right away. So download stats are not the best indicator of popularity, but I was wondering how difficult would it be to set up a mechinism by which one could record how many times a module has been downloaded from a mirror? Is this already being done anywhere?

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Re: CPAN download stats
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Mar 17, 2003 at 03:48 UTC

    Take a look at CPANSTATS which is a start at gathering the sort of information you're interested in.

    Gathering download information would need co-operation from all the mirrors - so I wouldn't think it's likely to happen. They already do enough for free :-)

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