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<div><p>Sometimes, it's humongous revolutions. Most of the time, it's itsy bitsy
evolution steps. Today's hack definitively sits in the second category, 
but I have the feeling it's a little dab of abstraction that is going to 
provide a lot of itch relief.</p>

<p>You see, <a href="https://metacpan.org">MetaCPAN</a> does not only have a pretty face,
but also has a <a href="https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki/Beta-API-docs">smashing backend</a> 
that can be used <a href="http://explorer.metacpan.org/">straight-up</a> for fun and
profit.</p>

<p>Accessing REST endpoints is not hard, but it's a little bit of a low-level
chore.  In Perl space, there is already <a href='http://search.cpan.org/dist/MetaCPAN-API'>MetaCPAN::API</a> to 
abstract</p>

<pre class="brush: perl">my $ua = LWP::UserAgent;
my $me = decode_json( 
    $ua-&gt;get( 'https://api.metacpan.org/author/YANICK'
)-&gt;content;
</pre>

<p>into</p>