There is an ongoing outage on the primary CPAN mirror. It is possible to work around the issue by using MetaCPAN as a mirror.
To install Etherpad::API, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Etherpad::API
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Etherpad::API
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.