Get list of version for particular CPAN distribution ?

vsespb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello.

I need to get list (programmatically, via API) of all versions of a particular CPAN module.

For example for MIME-Base64 it is 3.13 3.11 3.10 3.09 3.08.

Is there a way to do it without parsing HTML ?

There are a lot of CPAN APIs, but seems none of them provide list of older versions.

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Re: Get list of version for particular CPAN distribution ? by vsespb (Chaplain) on Jan 08, 2013 at 22:09 UTC
Seems I found a solution `use BackPAN::Index; my $backpan = BackPAN::Index->new; my $dist = $backpan->dist("MIME-Base64"); my $releases = $dist->releases; print join "\n", map { $_->version } $releases->all;` [download] it uses BackPAN however (i.e. includes obsolete versions). But for me it's not a major problem.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Get list of version for particular CPAN distribution ? by space_monk (Chaplain) on Jan 09, 2013 at 10:33 UTC
Props for finding the solution to your own question! :-P A Monk aims to give answers to those who have none, and to learn from those who know more.	[reply]