NAME

       MetaCPAN::Client::Author - An Author data object

VERSION

       version 2.023000

SYNOPSIS

           my $author = $mcpan->author('MICKEY');

DESCRIPTION

       a MetaCPAN author entity object.

ATTRIBUTES

   pauseid
       The author's pause id, which is a string like "MICKEY" or "XSAWYERX".

   name
       The author's full name, if they've provided this in their MetaCPAN profile. This may
       contain Unicode characters.

   ascii_name
       An ASCII-only version of the author's full name, if they've provided this in their
       MetaCPAN profile.

   city
       The author's city, if they've provided this in their MetaCPAN profile.

   region
       The author's region, if they've provided this in their MetaCPAN profile.

   country
       The author's country, if they've provided this in their MetaCPAN profile.

   updated
       An ISO8601 datetime string like "2016-11-19T12:41:46" indicating when the author last
       updated their MetaCPAN profile. This is always provided in UTC.

   dir
       The author's CPAN directory, which is something like "id/P/PE/PERLER".

   gravatar_url
       The author's gravatar.com user URL, if they have one. This URL is generated using
       PAUSEID@cpan.org.

   user
       The user's internal MetaCPAN id.

   donation
       This is an arrayref containing zero or more hashrefs. Each hashref contains two keys,
       "name" and "id". The known names are currently "paypal", "wishlist", and "flattr". The id
       will be an appropriate id or URL for the thing in question.

       This may be empty if the author has not provided this information in their MetaCPAN
       profile.

       For example:

           [
               { "name" => "paypal",   "id" => "brian.d.foy@gmail.com" },
               { "name" => "wishlist", "id" => "http://amzn.com/w/4O7IX9ZNQJR" },
           ],

   email
       This is an arrayref containing zero or more email addresses that the author has added to
       their MetaCPAN profile. Note that this does not include the "AUTHOR@cpan.org" email
       address that all CPAN authors have.

   website
       This is an arrayref of website URLs provided by the author in their MetaCPAN profile.

   profile
       This is an arrayref containing zero or more hashrefs. Each hashref contains two keys,
       "name" and "id". The names are things like "github" or "stackoverflow". The id will be an
       appropriate id for the site in question.

       For example:

           [
               { name => "amazon",        id => "B002MRC39U"  },
               { name => "stackoverflow", id => "brian-d-foy" },
           ]

       This may be empty if the author has not provided this information in their MetaCPAN
       profile.

   perlmongers
       This is an arrayref containing zero or more hashrefs. Each hashref contains two keys,
       "name" and "url". The names are things like "Minneapolis.pm".

       This may be empty if the author has not provided this information in their MetaCPAN
       profile.

   links
       This is a hashref where the keys are a link type, and the values are URLs. The currently
       known keys are:

       •   cpan_directory

           The author's CPAN directory.

       •   backpan_directory

           The author's BackCPAN directory.

       •   cpantesters_reports

           The author's CPAN Testers Reports page.

       •   cpantesters_matrix

           The author's CPAN Testers matrix page.

       •   cpants

           The author's CPANTS page.

       •   metacpan_explorer

           A link to the MetaCPAN explorer site pre-populated with a request for the author's
           profile.

   blog
       This is an arrayref containing zer or more hashrefs. Each hashref contains two keys, "url"
       and "feed". For example:

           {
               url  => "http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/",
               feed => "http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/atom.xml",
           }

   release_count
       This is a hashref containing counts for various types of releases. The known keys are:

       •   cpan

           The total number of distribution uplaods the author currently has on CPAN.

       •   latest

           The total number of unique distributions the author currently has on CPAN.

       •   backpan-only

           The number of distribution uploads currently only available via BackPAN.

   extra
       Returns a hashref. The contents of this are entirely arbitrary and will vary by author.

METHODS

   BUILDARGS
       Ensures format of the input.

   releases
           my $releases = $author->releases();

       This method returns a MetaCPAN::Client::ResultSet of MetaCPAN::Client::Release objects. It
       includes all of the author's releases with the "latest" status.

   metacpan_url
       Returns a link to the author's page on MetaCPAN.

AUTHORS

       •   Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>

       •   Mickey Nasriachi <mickey@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2016 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.