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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/cpan-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/cpan-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/cpan-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/cpan-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Live CPAN registry data. /v1/distribution = latest release metadata (abstract, author, license, resources, runtime dependencies, download URL); /v1/module = which distribution provides a Perl module; /v1/releases = release history of a distribution; /v1/search = search the registry. Distribution names use hyphens (Mojolicious, libwww-perl); module names use :: (Moose, JSON::PP).",
        "source": "CPAN — the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (via the MetaCPAN API)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/distribution",
            "/v1/module",
            "/v1/releases",
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T12:54:32.201Z",
        "request_id": "e0eb6340-dccd-4d2d-baac-227e8d5b82f7"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}