Perl Advent Calendar Daily Installer

Here is a quick and dirty little app that will query http://perladvent.org for the module of the day and install it via CPAN. You must have the proper permissions on your system to actually install the module. Better late then never. :)

use strict;
use warnings;
use CPAN;
use Time::Piece;
use LWP::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
use Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate;

use constant YEAR => 2003;

my $time = localtime;
unless ($time->year == YEAR && $time->mon == 12 && $time->mday < 25) {
   die "today does not have module\n";
}

my $day  = ordinate($time->mday);
my $html = get("http://perladvent.org/@{[YEAR]}/$day");
my $p    = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(\$html);

while (my $t = $p->get_token) {
   if ($t->is_start_tag('div')) {
      my $attr = $t->return_attr;
      if (defined $attr->{class} && $attr->{class} eq 'moduletitle') {
         $t = $p->get_token;
         CPAN::Shell->install($t->as_is);
      }
   }
}
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UPDATE:
Podmaster++ >:)

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Re: Perl Advent Calendar Daily Installer
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Dec 07, 2003 at 17:29 UTC

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple 'get';
use XML::Simple;
use CPAN;

my $xml = XMLin( get( 'http://perladvent.org/perladvent.rdf' ) );


my $item = shift @{ $xml->{channel}{item} };

CPAN::Shell->install($1) if $item->{title} =~ /-\s(\S+)$/;
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update:

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple 'get';
use XML::Simple;
use CPAN;

CPAN::Shell->install( 
    XMLin( get( 'http://perladvent.org/perladventone.rdf' ) )
        ->{channel}{item}{title}
);
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Re^2: Perl Advent Calendar Daily Installer

by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 08, 2003 at 12:54 UTC

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple 'get';
use XML::LibXML;
use CPAN;

CPAN::Shell->install(
    XML::LibXML
        ->new()
        ->parse_string( get( 'http://perladvent.org/perladventone.rdf'
+ ) )
        ->findvalue( '/rss/channel/item/title' )
);
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