MetaCPA...::Author(3)

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version 0.51 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because this is MetaCPA...::Author(3) — a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, no cap. And what is it? It's MetaCPAN::API::Author 🎀, the little module that gets you author information for MetaCPAN::API. yes, that's the whole vibe.

✨ VERSION ✨

we are on version 0.51 — iconic, current, slaying. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this thing is a role, right? And what a role does is it hands MetaCPAN::API the power to go fetch info about authors. that's it. that's the job. and it does it gorgeously. 🦋

👑 METHODS 👑

💜 author

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

bestie this method literally searches MetaCPAN for a specific author. that's the whole thing. main character behaviour, honestly. 🌟

and if one lil author isn't enough for you — because you're greedy and valid — you can do complex searches using the search parameter:

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

look at that. q and size living their best lives. we love to see it. 😭💖

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org> — the legend, the moment, the entire personality of this module. 👑

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

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so go off, redistribute responsibly, the legal girlies have spoken. 💅✨

and that's a wrap on the whole thing, fr fr. this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and yes, the header up top really does say MetaCPA...::Author(3) — we don't question it, we just vibe. 💖🌈🦋
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