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Try the CPAN module itself.

CPAN::Distribution::get might do the trick.

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Re^2: Programmatic way to get CPAN Module tarballs?
by Plankton (Vicar) on Jan 13, 2010 at 17:58 UTC
    thanks! exactly what I needed!
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      #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CPAN;

my @cpanmods = qw / 
Algorithm::Interval2Prefix \
Apache::Session::File  \
... other modules go here
XML::Generator
/;

for my $cpanmod ( @cpanmods ) {
        for my $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module", $cpanmod )) {
                print "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/" . $mod
+->{'RO'}{'CPAN_FILE'} . "\n";
        }
}

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