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Menlo-1.9019
River stage two • 2 direct dependents • 18 total dependents
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/ Menlo::Index::MetaCPAN

SYNOPSIS

  use CPAN::Common::Index::MetaCPAN;

  $index = CPAN::Common::Index::MetaCPAN->new({ include_dev => 1 });
  $index->search_packages({ package => "Moose", version => "1.1" });
  $index->search_packages({ package => "Moose", version_range => ">= 1.1, < 2" });

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a CPAN::Common::Index that searches for packages against the MetaCPAN API.

This backend supports searching modules with a version range (as specified in CPAN::Meta::Spec) which is translated into MetaCPAN search query.

There is also a support for dev release search, by passing include_dev parameter to the index object.

The result may include an optional field download_uri which suggests a specific mirror URL to download from, which can be backpan.org if the archive was deleted, or cpan.metacpan.org if the release date is within 1 day (because some mirrors might not have synced it yet).

There is no support for searching packages with a regular expression, nor searching authors.