I've released App::sync_cpantesters. Here is the manpage of bin/sync_cpantesters:
NAME
sync_cpantesters - Sync CPAN testers failure reports to local dir
SYNOPSIS
sync_cpantesters -a MARCEL -d results -v
DESCRIPTION
CPAN testers provide a valuable service. The reports are available on the Web
- for example, for CPAN ID MARCEL, the reports are at
http://cpantesters.perl.org/author/MARCEL.html. I don't like to read them
in the browser and click on each individual failure report. I also don't look
at the success reports. I'd rather download the failure reports and read them
in my favourite editor, vim. I want to be able to run this program repeatedly
and only download new failure reports, as well as delete old ones that no
longer appear in the master list - probably because a new version of the
distribution in question was uploaded.
If you are in the same position, then this program might be for you.
You need to pass a base directory using the --dir options. For each
distribution for which there are failure reports, a directory is created. Each
failure report is stored in a file within that subdirectory. The HTML is
converted to plain text. For example, at one point in time, I ran the program
using:
sync_cpantesters -a MARCEL -d reports
and the directory structure created looked like this:
reports/Aspect-0.12/449224
reports/Attribute-Memoize-0.01/39824
reports/Attribute-Memoize-0.01/71010
reports/Attribute-Overload-0.04/700557
reports/Attribute-TieClasses-0.03/700575
reports/Attribute-Util-1.02/455076
reports/Attribute-Util-1.02/475237
reports/Attribute-Util-1.02/477578
reports/Attribute-Util-1.02/485231
reports/Attribute-Util-1.02/489218
...
COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
The CPAN ID for which you want to download CPAN testers results. In my case,
this id is MARCEL.
You have to use exactly one of --author or --uri.
The URI from which to download the CPAN testers results. It needs to be in the
same format as, say, http://cpantesters.perl.org/author/MARCEL.html. You
might want to use this option if you've already downloadd the relevant file;
in this case, use a file:// URI.
You have to use exactly one of --author or --uri.
The directory you want to download the reports to. This can be a relative or absolute path. This argument is mandatory.
Be more verbose.
Show this documentation.