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NAME

App::CPANIDX - Queryable web-based CPAN Index

SYNOPSIS


            

              
              
# Generate the index database
$ cpanidx-gendb --config cpanidx.ini
# Run the FastCGI script
$ cpanidx-fcgi --config cpanidx.ini

DESCRIPTION

App::CPANIDX provides a number of scripts to build a queryable web-based CPAN index.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration is dealt with by a Config::Tiny based configuration file.

There are a number of parameters which can be specified

dsn

The DBI dsn string of the database that the scripts will use. This is a mandatory requirement.

user

The username for the supplied dsn.

pass

The password for the supplied dsn.

url

The cpanidx-gendb script will poll this url when it has finished its update. It should be the root url of your CPANIDX site


            

              
              
url=http://my.cpanidx.site/cpanidx/
mirror

The url of a CPAN mirror site where cpanidx-gendb will obtain its index files from. If not supplied it defaults to the Funet site ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/.

socket

This is the socket that FCGI should listen on for requests. It is a mandatory requirement for the cpanidx-fcgi script.

skipcore

Applicable to the cpanidx-gendb script, will skip the generation of the Module::CoreList based tables.

skipmirrors

Applicable to the cpanidx-gendb script, will skip the generation of the mirrorlist based tables.

skipperms

Applicable to the cpanidx-gendb script, will skip the generation of the CPAN permissions based tables.

SCRIPTS

Both the scripts will by default look for a cpanidx.ini file in the current working directory unless you specify an alternative with the --config command line option.

cpanidx-gendb

Generates the CPANIDX database. It will retrieve the CPAN index files from a CPAN mirror and parse them to build the database.

The CPAN indexes are downloaded to ~/.cpanidx by default. You may override this location by setting the PERL5_CPANIDX_DIR environment variable to a different location to use.

In tests a DBD::SQLite database took over 3 minutes to generate and a DBD::mysql database took 30 seconds.

It is recommended that one uses cron or some such scheduler to run this script every hour to ensure freshness of the CPAN index.

cpanidx-fcgi

Presents the CPAN index to web clients via FastCGI. Specify a socket that the script should listen for requests on and configure your webserver accordingly.

The following is an example for Lighttpd:


            

              
              
fastcgi.server = (
      "/cpanidx/" =>
       ( "localhost" => (
          "host" => "127.0.0.1",
          "port" => 1027,
          "check-local" => "disable",
          )
       ),
)

The interface that clients can query is described below.

INTERFACE

The cpanidx-fcgi provides a number of ways that clients can access information from the CPAN Index.

The information is provided in a number of different formats: YAML, JSON, XML and HTML.

Information is requested by using a special URL


            

              
              
http://name.of.website/<prefix>/<format>/<cmd>/<search_term>

We will assume that <prefix> is cpanidx for the purposes of this documentation.

<format>

The format may be one of yaml, json, xml or html.

<cmd>

The command may be one of the following:

mod

Takes a search term which is a module name to search for. Returns information relating to that module if it exists.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/mod/LWP
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:34:07 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  cpan_id: GAAS
  dist_file: G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.834.tar.gz
  dist_name: libwww-perl
  dist_vers: 5.834
  mod_name: LWP
  mod_vers: 5.834
dist

Takes a search term which is a distribution name to search for. Returns information relating to that distribution if it exists.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/dist/CPANPLUS-Dist-Build
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:02:23 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-Dist-Build-0.48.tar.gz
  dist_name: CPANPLUS-Dist-Build
  dist_vers: 0.48
auth

Takes a search term which is the CPAN ID of an author to search for. Returns information relating to that author if they exist.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/auth/BINGOS
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:36:13 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  email: chris@bingosnet.co.uk
  fullname: 'Chris Williams'
dists

Takes a search term which is the CPAN ID of an author. Returns a list of distributions that author has on CPAN.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/dists/BINGOS
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:39:14 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/POE-Filter-LZO-1.70.tar.gz
  dist_name: POE-Filter-LZO
  dist_vers: 1.70
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/POE-Component-Server-SimpleSMTP-1.44.tar.gz
  dist_name: POE-Component-Server-SimpleSMTP
  dist_vers: 1.44
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/POE-Component-Server-RADIUS-1.02.tar.gz
  dist_name: POE-Component-Server-RADIUS
  dist_vers: 1.02
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/Archive-Extract-0.38.tar.gz
  dist_name: Archive-Extract
  dist_vers: 0.38
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-URI-Find-1.08.tar.gz
  dist_name: POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-URI-Find
  dist_vers: 1.08
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dist_file: B/BI/BINGOS/POE-Component-SmokeBox-Dists-1.00.tar.gz
  dist_name: POE-Component-SmokeBox-Dists
  dist_vers: 1.00

etc, etc.

perms

Takes a search term which is a module name to search for. Returns CPAN permissions relating to that module if it exists.

The permission is one of m for modulelist, f for first-come and c for co-maint.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/perms/POE::Component::SmokeBox::Dists
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:39:14 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  mod_name: POE::Component::SmokeBox::Dists
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  perms: f
timestamp

Does not take a search term. Returns a timestamp of when the CPAN Index Database was last updated and when the packages file that was used was last updated. Both values are in epoch time.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/timestamp
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:16:15 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  lastupdated: 1276075625
  timestamp: 1276077865
topten

Does not take a search term. Returns a list of the authors with the most distributions. This is not the most accurate, try http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/wholecpan.html for a more accurate leaderboard.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/topten
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:44:44 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  cpan_id: ADAMK
  dists: 237
-
  cpan_id: RJBS
  dists: 215
-
  cpan_id: ZOFFIX
  dists: 212
-
  cpan_id: MIYAGAWA
  dists: 190
-
  cpan_id: SMUELLER
  dists: 130
-
  cpan_id: NUFFIN
  dists: 122
-
  cpan_id: TOKUHIROM
  dists: 121
-
  cpan_id: BINGOS
  dists: 121
-
  cpan_id: GUGOD
  dists: 118
-
  cpan_id: MARCEL
  dists: 114
mirrors

Does not take a search term. Returns a list of CPAN mirror sites as listed in the MIRRORED.BY file.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/mirrors
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:52:52 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  dst_bandwidth: STM-1
  dst_contact: tenet.ac.za^aa
  dst_ftp: ftp://cpan.mirror.ac.za/
  dst_http: http://cpan.mirror.ac.za/
  dst_location: 'Cape Town, South Africa, Africa (-33.93 18.47)'
  dst_notes: ''
  dst_organisation: TENET
  dst_rsync: mirror.ac.za::cpan
  dst_src: rsync://www.cpan.org/CPAN/
  dst_timezone: '+2'
  frequency: '12 Hourly'
  hostname: mirror.ac.za
-
  dst_bandwidth: 50MB
  dst_contact: is.co.za|ftpadmin
  dst_ftp: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/cpan/
  dst_http: http://mirror.is.co.za/pub/cpan/
  dst_location: 'Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Africa (-26.17 28.03)'
  dst_notes: 'Limit to 4 simultaneous connections.'
  dst_organisation: 'Internet Solutions'
  dst_rsync: ftp.is.co.za::IS-Mirror/ftp.cpan.org/
  dst_src: rsync.nic.funet.fi
  dst_timezone: '+2'
  frequency: daily
  hostname: is.co.za
-
  dst_bandwidth: T3
  dst_contact: saix.net=ftp
  dst_ftp: ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/CPAN/
  dst_http: ''
  dst_location: 'Parow, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa (-33.9064 18.5631)'
  dst_notes: ''
  dst_organisation: 'South African Internet eXchange (SAIX)'
  dst_rsync: ''
  dst_src: ftp.funet.fi
  dst_timezone: '+2'
  frequency: daily
  hostname: saix.net
-

etc. etc.

corelist

Takes a search term which is a module name to search for. Returns information if that module is shipped with perl core.


            

              
              
curl -i http://name.of.website/cpanidx/yaml/corelist/Class::ISA
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/x-yaml; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 09:31:25 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.25
---
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.007003
  released: 2002-03-05
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008
  released: 2002-07-19
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008001
  released: 2003-09-25
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008002
  released: 2003-11-05
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008003
  released: 2004-01-14
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008004
  released: 2004-04-21
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008005
  released: 2004-07-19
-
  deprecated: 0
  mod_vers: 0.32
  perl_ver: 5.008006
  released: 2004-11-27

etc etc.

AUTHOR

Chris BinGOs Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

LICENSE

Copyright © Chris Williams

This module may be used, modified, and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the license that came with your Perl distribution for details.

SEE ALSO

Config::Tiny

DBI

FCGI