The CPAN Search Site
- A comprehensive index of Perl Modules. The index is fully searchable and up to date.
- http://search.cpan.org/
CGI.pm - A popular module for CGI programming; read forms, use cookies, and generate HTML. Included in the standard distribution of Perl 5. - http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI.pm/
WordNet Perl Module - An object oriented interface to WordNet 1.6 database. - http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/WordNet/
NetCDFPerl - A Perl extension module for scientific data access via version 2 of the netCDF API. - http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-perl/
LEGO::RCX - Allows one to communicate with the Lego MindStorms(R) RCX brick from a workstation through the IR tower. - http://search.cpan.org/~jquillan/LEGO-RCX-1.01/RCX.pm
Glade-Perl - Perl generator for Glade. - http://www.glade-perl.connectfree.co.uk/
CPAN++ - Provides command-line access to the CPAN interface. - http://cpanplus.dwim.org
Authen::PAM - A Perl module which provides an interface to the PAM library. - http://nik.pelov.name/Authen-PAM/
Config::General - Generic Perl module for reading and writing complex configuration files. Listed on CPAN. - http://www.daemon.de/ConfigGeneral
App::Modular and other Perl Modules - Modules for developing modular applications, template parser, configuration file handling, and daemons. - http://technik.juz-kirchheim.de/projects/Perl-Modules.html
CPAN Code Search by Gonzui - Searches within the source code of all the modules available on CPAN. - http://cpansearch.bulknews.net/
CPAN Leaderboard - A list of CPAN authors, sorted in descending order by number of distributions contributed. Source code available. - http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/wholecpan.html
Perldoc.com: Core Modules - Documentation for modules that form part of the standard distribution of perl. - http://perldoc.perl.org/index-modules-A.html
The Bioperl Project - A collection of Perl modules for developers of bioinformatics software. - http://www.bioperl.org/
Browse and Search CPAN - Randy Kobes - Documentation on CPAN modules along with links to file name, module name, and category resources. - http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/faqs/cpan-search.html
Java - Module allows talk to a JVM on a local or remote machine. - http://search.cpan.org/~metzzo/Java-4.7/Java.pm
Win32::MSAgent - Allows to use the Microsoft Agent 2.0 OLE control in perl scripts. - http://search.cpan.org/~jouke/Win32-MSAgent-0.07/lib/Win32/MSAgent.pm
libwww-perl - Modules to provide a simple and consistent programming interface to the WWW. - http://lwp.linpro.no/lwp/
Config:: - Facilitates cached and pre-parsed file reading. - http://www.fatalmind.com/software/CONFIG/
SMIME - A Perl module for making smime signatures as well as basic key generation and certificate authority functions. - http://www.symlabs.com/Offerings/Net_SSLeay/smime.html
MP3::Album - Perl extension to manage a music album built of mp3 files. - http://search.cpan.org/~bmavt/MP3-Album-0.14/Album.pod
Persistent - A framework of classes that provides persistence for Perl objects. - http://www.bigsnow.org/persistent/
AI::Categorizer - A framework for automatic text categorization - http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/AI-Categorizer-0.07/
The Perl DateTime Project - A set of modules for dealing with today's complex time zone system, date conversion and calculating the date upon which Easter falls in a given year. - http://datetime.perl.org/
Apache/Perl Module List - A list of Perl modules used for interacting with the Apache Webserver. - http://perl.apache.org/products/apache-modules.html
Apache::Htaccess - Allows creation and modification of Apache .htaccess files. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/apache-htaccess/
Net::DNS - Collection of modules that act as a Domain Name System resolver. They allows the programmer to perform DNS queries that are beyond the capabilities of gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr. - http://www.net-dns.org/
Lingua::Romana::Perligata - Damian Conway's paper on the module that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin. - http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
WebTools - Package to aid Web developers. Supports embedding Perl in HTML files, flat file databases, session tracking and cookies, and MySQL/MS Access. - http://www.proscriptum.com/
fmscore and Mail::Freshmeat - A Perl program and module which it use supplied by the user of freshmeat.net newsletter to rank the entries in a newsletter by interest. It also has the nice side effect of removing the advertising from the top of the newsletter. - http://adamspiers.org/computing/fmscore/
WebL-Perl - Allows access of WebL scripts from Perl. - http://www.vandenbrande.com/projects/WebL/
VACM::Perl - Wrappers for the VACM programmer's API. - http://vacm-perl.sourceforge.net/
Test::Cmd - Provides a low-level framework for portable automated testing of executable commands and scripts. - http://www.baldmt.com/Test-Cmd/
WWW::SMS - Framework for sending free SMSs over the web. - http://www-sms.sourceforge.net/
wxPerl - Perl bindings to the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit. - http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/
CORBA::ORBit - Perl binding for ORBit. - http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/corba/orbit.html
Perl Beans - Implementation of the Java Beans framework in Perl. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlbeans/
GPS - Provides access to several GPS protocols, such as Garmin, NMEA, and Magellan. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-gps/
TableMap - Maps relational tables into hashes. - http://hacks.dlux.hu/TableMap/
Module::Reloadable - Used to reload specific modules in a permanent-running environment. - http://hacks.dlux.hu/Module-Reloadable/
p5-IPA - Library of image processing algorithms. Based on the Prima toolkit. - http://www.prima.eu.org/IPA/
Net::Z3950::SimpleServer - Implements the server side of the Z39.50 (information retrieval) protocol. - http://www.indexdata.dk/simpleserver/
Net::Whois::RIPE - Object-orientated module that provides methods to query, retrieve and update RIPE-157 formated objects, from whois servers that support this format. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-whois-ripe/
Net::ICQ2000 - Module for handling the ICQ2000 protocol. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/neticq2k/
Finance::StockTrade - Library of modules (and example scripts) for performing various on-line stock trading tasks such as buying, selling, and monitoring. - http://jeremy.zawodny.com/perl/Finance-StockTrade/
Geo::METAR - Designed for accessing aviation weather information. - http://jeremy.zawodny.com/perl/Geo-METAR/
Apache::Cookie - Interface to the cookie routines in libapreq. Based on CGI::Cookie. - http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/Apache-Cookie.html
Finance::Quote - Can be used to obtain information from a variety of sources, including markets in Australia, USA, Canada, Europe, and a number of managed funds. - http://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/
Finance::QuoteHist - Several modules designed to fetch historical stock quotes from the web. Includes interfaces for Yahoo, WallStreetCity, and SiliconInvestor. - http://www.mojotoad.com/sisk/projects/Finance-QuoteHist/
Cache::Cache - Designed to assist a developer in persisting data for a specified period of time. - http://perl-cache.sourceforge.net/
Devel::Profiler - Profiler compatible with dprofpp. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/devel-profiler/
CGI::Cache - Perl extension to help cache output of time-intensive CGI scripts so that subsequent visits to such scripts will not cost as much time. - http://cgicache.sourceforge.net/
Backend News Project - A group of Perl modules that can be used to extract backend news files from different web sites and display the news in a personal website that has the ability to run Perl CGI scripts. Project is still in beta phase. - http://backendnews.sourceforge.net/
RDFStore - API for RDF storage and maintenance. - http://rdfstore.sourceforge.net/
Skybound Software. - The home of SMS::Ringtone::RTTTL::Parser (a RTTTL string parser and validator) and SMS::Ringtone::RTTTL::MIDI (a RTTTL to MIDI format converter). A free web service is also available to test these modules. - http://www.skybound.nl/products/perl/
The WebFetch Project - A set of Perl5 modules that provide a framework for retrieving information from local files and/or the web. - http://www.webfetch.org/
Net::Z3950 - This module provides a Perl interface to the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. - http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/nz/
WWW::Search - A collection of Perl modules which provide an API to WWW search engines like AltaVista, Lycos, Hotbot, and WebCrawler. - http://www.isi.edu/lsam/tools/WWW_SEARCH/
X11::Fvwm - A Perl module for interfacing with the FVWM2 X11 window manager API. - http://www.byz.org/~randy/perl/X11::Fvwm/
CFITSIO - Offers an interface to William Pence's CFITSIO subroutine library. - http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~rpete/cfitsio/
PerLDAP - A Perl module that allows programmers to access and manipulate LDAP directories. - http://www.perldap.org/
MARC - A Perl module for reading, manipulating, outputting and converting bibliographic records in the Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format. - http://marcpm.sourceforge.net/
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - Information and examples for creating Excel Spreadsheet files with Perl. - http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/WriteExcel.html
Apache::ASP - A Perl module that provides an Active Server Pages (ASP) port to the Apache Webserver. It allows developers to create dynamic web applications with session management and embed Perl code directly in static HTML files. - http://www.apache-asp.org/
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN - Publisher's site for the book by Sam Tregar. The entire first chapter, 'CPAN', is available for free in PDF format. - http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=14
CDDB / CDDB_Get - Retrieves the CDDB information for an audio CD. - http://armin.emx.at/cddb/
cgi-lib.pl - Very popular Perl 4/5 module for simple CGI tasks, such as reading form input. - http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu/
Installing Perl Modules - A guide to installing Perl modules on Unix and Windows platforms. - http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl/modules.html
IMDB.pm - Allows the retrieval of information about DVDs and media from the Internet Movie Database. - http://www.infocopter.com/perl_corner/retos-imdb.htm
Embperl - A server-side tool and framework for building websites with embedding Perl code in HTML pages. [Open source, GPL or Artistic License] - http://perl.apache.org/embperl/