CPAN graph?

[wchristian]

I don't have the JS chops to build one myself, but i can tell you where to easily get the data.

There's the ElasticSearch-based metacpan API which is documented here and here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl.html
https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/blob/master/docs/API-docs.md

To get all the distributions on CPAN, you can build on this query:
http://api.metacpan.org/v0/distribution/_search

To get the dependencies for each distribution, you can build on this query:
http://api.metacpan.org/v0/search/reverse_dependencies/MetaCPAN-API

Note also that these URLs can easily be tested on the metacpan explorer:
https://explorer.metacpan.org/#/5706053

Total graph size should be around 32469 nodes.

[anvaka]

Thank you! I tried indexing CPAN as well long time ago: https://github.com/anvaka/allcpan
But that indexer had a bug in it. If I remember correctly it was assigning each package 5,000 dependents or something like this.

I didn't have time to debug it in more details but I'll come back to it!