NAME

       Menlo::Index::MetaCPAN - Search index via MetaCPAN

SYNOPSIS

         use CPAN::Common::Index::MetaCPAN;

         $index = CPAN::Common::Index::MetaCPAN->new({ include_dev => 1 });
         $index->search_packages({ package => "Moose", version => "1.1" });
         $index->search_packages({ package => "Moose", version_range => ">= 1.1, < 2" });

DESCRIPTION

       This module implements a CPAN::Common::Index that searches for packages against the
       MetaCPAN API.

       This backend supports searching modules with a version range (as specified in
       CPAN::Meta::Spec) which is translated into MetaCPAN search query.

       There is also a support for dev release search, by passing "include_dev" parameter to the
       index object.

       The result may include an optional field "download_uri" which suggests a specific mirror
       URL to download from, which can be "backpan.org" if the archive was deleted, or
       "cpan.metacpan.org" if the release date is within 1 day (because some mirrors might not
       have synced it yet).

       There is no support for searching packages with a regular expression, nor searching
       authors.