Start using the MetaCPAN API Client to fetch the list of most recently uploaded Perl modules

MetaCPAN is the place where you go if you'd like to find a Perl module and if you'd like to read its documentation.

It also has a public API so we can write a script to search for various things for us.

For example we would like to be able to fetch the most recently uploaded modules.

For this first we need to locate the module that implements the client for the API. It is called MetaCPAN::Client

Then we need to install the module

cpanm MetaCPAN::Client

Then we play around a bit with the documentation and get this script:

examples/meta.pl

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

use MetaCPAN::Client;
my $mcpan  = MetaCPAN::Client->new();
my $recent = $mcpan->recent(10);
#say $recent;

while (my $item = $recent->next) {
    say $item->name;
    say $item->distribution;
}

We found the recent method of MetaCPAN::Client to return an instance of MetaCPAN::Client::ResultSet holding a list of MetaCPAN::Client::Release objects.