Try this:

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CPANPLUS::Backend;

# this will need to be more clever in the general case
# (cross platform paths, odd locations, generated code, etc.)
sub find_pod {
    my ( $dir, $module_name ) = @_;
    my $module_path = join '/', split /::/, $module_name;
    foreach my $extension ( qw( pod pm ) ) {
        my $file = "$dir/lib/$module_path.$extension";
        return $file if -e $file;
    }
    return;
}

sub get_description_from_pod {
    my ( $filename, $module_name ) = @_;
    open my $fh, "<", $filename or die "open failed ($!)\n";
    while ( my $line = <$fh> ) {
        chomp $line;
        return $1 if $line =~ m/^$module_name\s+-\s+(.*)$/s;
    }
    return;
}

sub description {
    my $module = shift;
    return $module->description if $module->description;
    $module->fetch or die CPANPLUS::Error->stack_as_string;
    my $dir = $module->extract or die CPANPLUS::Error->stack_as_string
+;
    return 'unknown' unless my $pod_file = find_pod( $dir, $module->na
+me );
    return get_description_from_pod( $pod_file, $module->name ) 
        or 'unknown';
}

my $cb = CPANPLUS::Backend->new;
my @modules = $cb->search( type => 'module', allow => [ qr/\ACatalyst:
+:Plugin/ ] );
print $_->name, " : ", description( $_ ), "\n" foreach @modules

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In reply to Re^7: Searching for Modules and Descriptions on CPAN Remotely by adrianh
in thread Searching for Modules and Descriptions on CPAN Remotely by ghenry

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