NAME

MetaCPAN::API::Author - Author information for MetaCPAN::API

VERSION

version 0.51

DESCRIPTION

This role provides MetaCPAN::API with fetching information about authors.

METHODS

author

my $result1 = $mcpan->author('XSAWYERX');
my $result2 = $mcpan->author( pauseid => 'XSAWYERX' );

Searches MetaCPAN for a specific author.

You can do complex searches using 'search' parameter:

# example lifted from MetaCPAN docs
my $result = $mcpan->author(
    search => {
        q    => 'profile.name:twitter',
        size => 1,
    },
);

AUTHOR

Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Sawyer X.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.