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This page is for people who are using our API v1 directly, and means we have a way to contact you should something need to be announced

Name Contact Info UserAgent Notes
ActiveState AS Infrastructure ActiveStateMetaCPANAgent/1.0 A CPAN mirror used for secure supply chain analysis
Alexander Karelas PAUSE id KARJALA "perlmodules.net 0.1" (without the quotes) https://perlmodules.net
alfred-metacpan Two Short Planks - http://twoshortplanks.com/contact alfred-metacpan/0.01 search metacpan from within the Alfred app launcher
analysis.cpantesters.org Andreas König analysis.cpantesters.org/$VERSION
App::rs Yang Bo - The first reference counting CPAN client
ArkDark skarfacegc - https://github.com/skarfacegc/ CPANDash (assuming I setup correctly)
Black Duck by Synopsys bmckalla - OpenSource licensing and security risk identification
brian d foy PAUSE id BRIANDFOY
Checkmarx Checkmarx - Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
coderbits Scott Smith - [email protected] curl/7.21.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.3
cpm skaji App::cpm/$VERSION
cpanminus Tatsuhiko Miyagawa cpanminus/$VERSION
cpans Brock Wilcox [email protected] - http://thelackthereof.org/ LWP command-line cpan search
CpanBot bence98 CpanBot/1.0 python-requests/<pyreq.ver.num> A convenience wrapper around CPANPlus and an automated bot putting MetaCPAN packages onto the Arch User Repository
CPAN Dashboard davorg MetaCPAN::Client/$VERSION Dashboard for CPAN authors
CPAN Dependencies Graph DBOOK MetaCPAN::Client/$VERSION CPAN distribution dependency graphs
CPANDash skarfacegc CPANDash ArkDark (assuming I setup correctly)
CPAN Once a Week Christopher J. Madsen - https://metacpan.org/author/CJM onceaweek/1 HTTP-Tiny/$VERSION
CPAN Releases David Dillard (david underscore dillard at symantec dot com) Unknown Yahoo Pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=485219981268f28db3a1511503b11ceb
CPAN::Perl::Releases::MetaCPAN skaji CPAN::Perl::Releases::MetaCPAN/VERSION
CPANscan [email protected] cpanscan.com https://cpanscan.com/
CPAN Testers Matrix Slaven Rezić LWP http://matrix.cpantesters.org
cpandoc Shawn M Moore - [email protected] cpandoc/$VERSION cpandoc
David Cantrell PAUSE id DCANTRELL DCANTRELL-* same prefix, different suffix for different scripts so you can tell me which one is misbehaving
Dist::Zilla::Role::MetaCPANInterfacer Brendan Byrd - [email protected] Mozilla/5.0 ($o; $os) ".blessed($self)."/$v ".$ua->_agent $self->mcpan
DuckDuckGo MetaCPAN Instant Answer DuckDuckGo - [email protected] User's browser Source: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/blob/master/lib/DDG/Spice/MetaCPAN.pm, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cpan+catalyst
IRC perlbot simcop2387 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko, really Perlbot) Chrome/45.0.2454.85 Safari/537.36 An IRC bot that handles a lot of perl related tasks in perl irc channels
Kritika vti KritikaIO Perl code review and CPAN dependencies security issues tracking
MacPorts https://www.macports.org/contact.php - check for updates in perl5 PortGroup
Map of CPAN Grant McLean - https://metacpan.org/author/GRANTM User's browser (via JSONP) + URL param application=cpan-map Source
matrix.cpantesters.org PAUSE id SREZIC -
metacpan_api Cogitri - A rust library used to access the metacpan.org API. Mainly used by tmplgen
MetaCPAN Notify Pavel Shaydo MetaCPAN Notify/$VERSION starting from version 0.05, before it was libwww-perl
METACPAN weekly report NICEPERL MetaCPAN::Client/$VERSION Great CPAN modules released last week
Mojolicious Plugin Matrix Renee Baecker - http://perl-services.de/kontakt.cgi Mojolicious Matrix Plugin (mojo.perl-services.de)/0.03
PAUSE::Permissions::MetaCPAN skaji PAUSE-Permissions-MetaCPAN/VERSION
Perl Maven's view Gabor Szabo - https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB - http://cpan.perlmaven.com/
PerlModules.net webmaster - [email protected] perlmodules.net 0.1 https://www.perlmodules.net/
Perlybook.org Renee Baecker - http://perl-services.de/kontakt.cgi Not defined yet have to search for solutions how to set UA for jquerys' getJSON
Pod::Cpandoc Shawn M Moore cpandoc/$VERSION cpandoc
Renovate GitHub Issues - Automated dependency updates. Multi-platform and multi-language.
rpmcpan theory rpmcpan/1.0
rt.cpan.org rt-cpan-admin - [email protected] CPAN2RT/$VERSION
Software Heritage https://www.softwareheritage.org/contact Software Heritage cpan lister VERSION
Versioneye Robert Reiz - we keep eye on licence, dependency and security details
Xavier (yadd) Guimard PAUSE id GUIMARD Debian uscan $VERSION Debian tool used to import archives

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