While pondering some web-scraping today, I found some circa 2006 references to FEAR::API. I checked CPAN and it is no longer there. The author, Xern, is still active. Does anyone know what happened to it?

Does it still exist, only now with a new name? Has it been abandonded? Removed? other? Replaced by something cooler? (if so, what is it?)

DESCRIPTION:
FEAR::API is a tool that helps reduce your time creating site scraping scripts and help you do it in a much more elegant way. FEAR::API combines many strong and powerful features from various CPAN modules, such as LWP::UserAgent, WWW::Mechanize, Template::Extract, Encode, HTML::Parser, etc. and digests them into a deeper Zen.
2006 perl.com article on FEAR::API by the module author:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html
Author's page at cpan:
http://search.cpan.org/~xern/
Backpan:
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/X/XE/XERN/
Fresh Ports package:
http://www.freshports.org/www/p5-FEAR-API/
Author's Twitter stream
http://twitter.com/xern
Update:
Xern replied:
@spazm it was pulled off long time ago. bad design. need to come up with a better one.

In reply to What happened to FEAR::API? by spazm

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