Dear Master Monks,

My goal is to be able to search for Modules on CPAN with the same prefix, grab the complete name and description, then print/save the results.

I have been playing with Parse-CPAN-Modlist and CPAN-Search-Lite, specifically CPAN::Search::Lite::Info.

Initially, I thought I was on to a winner, i.e. grab the necessary files to search from (03modlist.data.gz etc.), save them to a tempdir, parse them and print/save/process the results. But both modules insist on only processing Released modules, and I want to process/search every module.

I could just use WWW-Mechanize, and search by hand, but I didn't want to keep hitting http://seach.cpan.org every time.

I also don't want to write all of it myself, but looks like I might have to, unless you guys have any other suggestions of modules/methods?

Thanks for your time,
Gavin.

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In reply to Searching for Modules and Descriptions on CPAN Remotely by ghenry

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