NAME
MetaCPAN::Clients - Some useful stand-alone scripts to access MetaCPAN
SYNOPSIS
Command-line tools:
metacpan_meta N [PAUSEID]
metacpan_namespace --module Module::Name
metacpan_namespace --distro Distro-Name (or partial name)
metacpan_impact --distro Distribution-Name
metacpan_reverse_dependencies --distro Distro-Name... or read the articles and check out MetaCPAN::API.
DESCRIPTION
For an explanation of the metacpan_meta.pl script see Fetching META data from Meta CPAN.
For the metacpan_namespace.pl see List all the Perl modules and distributions in a name-space using Meta CPAN.
The metacpan_reverse_dependencies.pl show the list of distributions that use the given distribution. Code taken from Test::DependentModules of Dave Rolsky.
RESULTS
Some results using these scripts show:
On December 28, 2012 we found that 17.4% of CPAN uploads have no license in the META files
On January 3, 2013 we found that 50% of the new CPAN uploads have a repository link
On February 5, 2013 we found that still about 16.6% of the recent CPAN uploads have no license and 50% no repository link in their META files.
OTHER Examples
If you are interested in other examples using the MetaCPAN::API, check out the list of distributions using MetaCPAN::API
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Gabor Szabo.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.