NAME
    WWW::CPAN - CPAN as a web service

SYNOPSIS
      use WWW::CPAN;

      $meta = WWW::CPAN->fetch_distmeta('Error');

      $cpan = WWW::CPAN->new;
      $meta = $cpan->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Error' });
      $meta = $cpan->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Error-0.13', });
      $meta = $cpan->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Error', version => '0.13' }); # same as above
      $meta = $cpan->fetch_distmeta({ dist => 'Error', author => 'GBARR', format => 'json' });

DESCRIPTION
    Blame Schwern.

      [LINK HERE]

    Just kidding. I just appropriated Schwern's idea and Graham's work. I am
    lazy -- but that's supposed to be a quality.

    ---

      Message-ID: <47706655.60109@pobox.com>
      Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:09:25 -0800
      From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@...>
      To: List - Module-Build <module-build@perl.org>, 
       Graham Barr <gbarr@...>
      Subject: META.json:  CPAN as a web service

      I asked Graham if he'd consider providing META.json auto-conversion for
      META.yml files so we can start playing with CPAN data in Javascript.

      Well here you are:
      http://search.cpan.org/meta/Error/META.json

      Specific versions work:
      http://search.cpan.org/meta/Error-0.17009/META.json

      You can request the META file as YAML:
      http://search.cpan.org/meta/Error/META.yml

      And even ask for information about the last release of a distribution by a
      particular author.
      http://search.cpan.org/meta/gbarr/Error/META.yml

      As a special bonus feature, Graham added auto generation of META for
      distributions which don't have them!  For example, that last META file.  It
      includes bonus information like the CPAN Forum, Testers, Tools and rt.cpan.org
      resource links.

      CPAN distribution data is now available as a web service.  Everybody say
      "thank you, Graham"!

SEE ALSO
    (there must be something else to be seen)

BUGS
    Please report bugs via CPAN RT
    http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-CPAN or mailto:.

AUTHORS
    Adriano R. Ferreira, <ferreira@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2007 by Adriano R. Ferreira

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.