Using search.cpan.org AND metacpan

I appreciate the effort and openness of metacpan, but their search is still pretty bad. To be clear, compare the results of the search for DBIx:Class::Source on SCO and metacpan. That’s why I made the following greasemonkey/dotjs script:

$('a').each(function(i,x){
   var obj = $(this);
   var href = obj.attr('href');
   var re = new RegExp('^/~([^/]+)/(.*)$');
   this.href = href.replace(re, 'https://metacpan.org/module/$1/$2');
})

Put this in ~/.js/search.cpan.org.js to install it with dotjs. Feel free to extend it to work for more than just modules.

Posted Wed, May 16, 2012

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