package CPAN::Search::Author;
$CPAN::Search::Author::VERSION = '0.04';
$CPAN::Search::Author::AUTHORITY = 'cpan:MANWAR';
=head1 NAME
CPAN::Search::Author - Interface to search CPAN module author.
=head1 VERSION
Version 0.04
=cut
use 5.006;
use strict; use warnings;
use overload q("") => \&as_string, fallback => 1;
use Data::Dumper;
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::Entities qw/decode_entities/;
our $DEBUG = 0;
=head1 DESCRIPTION
CPAN::Search::Author is an attempt to provide programmatical interface to CPAN
Search engine. CPAN Search is a search engine for the distributions,modules, docs,
and ID's on CPAN. It was conceived and built by Graham Barr as a way to make
things easier to navigate. Originally named TUCS [ The Ultimate CPAN Search ] it
was later named CPAN Search or Search DOT CPAN.
=cut
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = { _browser => LWP::UserAgent->new() };
bless $self, $class;
return $self;
}
=head1 METHODS
=head2 by_id()
This method accepts CPAN ID exactly as provided by CPAN. It does realtime search
on CPAN site and fetch the author name for the given CPAN ID. However it would
croak if it can't access the CPAN site / unable to get any response for the given
CPAN ID.
use strict; use warnings;
use CPAN::Search::Author;
my $result = CPAN::Search::Author->new->by_id('MANWAR');
=cut
sub by_id
{
my $self = shift;
my $id = shift;
my $browser = $self->{_browser};
$browser->env_proxy;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>qq[http://search.cpan.org/search?query=$id&mode=author]);
my $response = $browser->request($request);
print {*STDOUT} "Search By Id [$id] Status: " . $response->status_line . "\n" if $DEBUG;
die("ERROR: Couldn't connect to search.cpan.org.\n") unless $response->is_success;
my $contents = $response->content;
my @contents = split(/\n/,$contents);
foreach (@contents) {
chomp;
s/^\s+//g;
s/\s+$//g;
if (/\<p\>\<h2 class\=sr\>\<a href\=\"\/\~(.*)\/\"\><b>(.*)<\/b\>/) {
if (uc($id) eq uc($1)) {
$self->{result} = decode_entities($2);
return $self->{result};
}
}
}
$self->{result} = undef;
return;
}
=head2 where_id_starts_with()
This method accepts an alphabet (A-Z) and get the list of authors that start with
the given alphabet from CPAN site realtime. However it would croak if it can't
access the CPAN site or unable to get any response for the given CPAN ID.
use strict; use warnings;
use CPAN::Search::Author;
my $result = CPAN::Search::Author->new->where_id_starts_with('M');
=cut
sub where_id_starts_with {
my ($self, $letter) = @_;
die("ERROR: Invalid letter [$letter].\n") unless ($letter =~ /[A-Z]/i);
my $browser = $self->{_browser};
$browser->env_proxy;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>qq[http://search.cpan.org/author/?$letter]);
my $response = $browser->request($request);
print {*STDOUT} "Search Id Starts With [$letter] Status: " . $response->status_line . "\n" if $DEBUG;
die("ERROR: Couldn't connect to search.cpan.org.\n") unless $response->is_success;
my $contents = $response->content;
my @contents = split(/\n/,$contents);
my @authors;
foreach (@contents) {
chomp;
s/^\s+//g;
s/\s+$//g;
if (/<a href\=\"\/\~(.*)\/\"/) {
push @authors, $1;
}
}
return @authors;
}
=head2 where_name_contains()
This method accepts a search string and look for the string in the author's name
of all the CPAN modules realtime and returns the a reference to a hash containing
id,name pair containing the search string. It croaks if unable to access the
search.cpan.org.
use strict; use warnings;
use CPAN::Search::Author;
my $result = CPAN::Search::Author->new-search->where_name_contains('MAN');
=cut
sub where_name_contains {
my ($self, $query) = @_;
my $browser = $self->{_browser};
$browser->env_proxy;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>qq[http://search.cpan.org/search?query=$query&mode=author]);
my $response = $browser->request($request);
print {*STDOUT} "Search By Name Contains [$query] Status: " . $response->status_line . "\n" if $DEBUG;
die("ERROR: Couldn't connect to search.cpan.org.\n") unless $response->is_success;
my $contents = $response->content;
my @contents = split(/\n/,$contents);
my $authors;
foreach (@contents) {
chomp;
s/^\s+//g;
s/\s+$//g;
$authors->{$1} = decode_entities($2)
if (/\<p\>\<h2 class\=sr\>\<a href\=\"\/\~(.*)\/\"\><b>(.*)<\/b\>/);
}
$self->{result} = $authors;
return $authors;
}
=head2 as_string()
Return the last search result in human readable format.
use strict; use warnings;
use CPAN::Search::Author;
my $result = CPAN::Search::Author->new->where_name_contains('MAN');
=cut
sub as_string {
my ($self) = @_;
return $self->{result} unless ref($self->{result});
my $string;
foreach (keys %{$self->{result}}) {
$string .= sprintf("%s: %s\n", $_, $self->{result}->{$_});
}
return $string;
}
=head1 AUTHOR
Mohammad S Anwar, C<< <mohammad.anwar at yahoo.com> >>
=head1 REPOSITORY
L<https://github.com/Manwar/CPAN-Search-Author>
=head1 BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to C<bug-cpan-search-author at rt.cpan.org>,
or through the web interface at L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=CPAN-Search-Author>.
I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on
your bug as I make changes.
=head1 SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc CPAN::Search::Author
You can also look for information at:
=over 4
=item * RT: CPAN's request tracker
L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CPAN::Search::Author>
=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
L<http://annocpan.org/dist/CPAN-Search-Author>
=item * CPAN Ratings
L<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/CPAN-Search-Author>
=item * Search CPAN
L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Search-Author/>
=back
=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 - 2015 Mohammad S Anwar.
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=cut
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