Alternate CPAN interfaces and tips

cutlass2006 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monkies,

Searching, browsing and generally cogitating on CPAN one typically uses:

http://search.cpan.org
http://kobesearch.cpan.org
http://cpanratings.perl.org/

and then there is the rest e.g. cpants, annocpan, etc

Also what are people's experiences with the XML feed that CPAN exposes, were/are there any plans to provide some sort of xml based API ?

CPAN is wonderful but there are days when I think it could be better and having a reliable API might let others have a go at it.

I am fishing for any top tips, what they do ... for example I create a bookmarklet in firefox so I can just type in cpan and then the module name in the browser address bar and it will search CPAN e.g. create a bookmark with the following url with a keyword of cpan

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module;query=%s

Whats yours ?

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Re: Alternate CPAN interfaces and tips by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2009 at 20:38 UTC
What xml feed? API to do what?	[reply]
Re^2: Alternate CPAN interfaces and tips by cutlass2006 (Pilgrim) on Jan 23, 2009 at 21:33 UTC
to create my own browse/search interfaces, integrate with my development tools, etc ... there is an existing xml feed but they warn that it is not to be trusted ... perhaps worried about additional load this could have.	[reply]