MetaCPAN::Client::Author(3)

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

VERSION
version 2.043000

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.

•   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.