Re: Programmatic way to get CPAN Module tarballs?

[ctilmes]

Try the CPAN module itself.

CPAN::Distribution::get might do the trick.

[Plankton]

thanks! exactly what I needed!

[Plankton]

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CPAN;

my @cpanmods = qw / 
Algorithm::Interval2Prefix \
Apache::Session::File  \
... other modules go here
XML::Generator
/;

for my $cpanmod ( @cpanmods ) {
        for my $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module", $cpanmod )) {
                print "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/" . $mod
+->{'RO'}{'CPAN_FILE'} . "\n";
        }
}