Add support for CPAN

README.rst

@@ -159,6 +159,13 @@ Check `RubyGems <https://rubygems.org/>`_ for updates.
 gems
   The name used on RubyGems, e.g. ``sass``.
 
+Check CPAN
+--------------
+Check `MetaCPAN <https://metacpan.org/>`_ for updates.
+
+cpan
+  The name used on CPAN, e.g. ``YAML``.
+
 Check Local Pacman Database
 ---------------------------
 This is used when you run ``nvchecker`` on an Arch Linux system and the program always keeps up with a package in your configured repositories for `Pacman`_.

nvchecker/get_version.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 handler_precedence = (
   'github', 'gitcafe', 'aur', 'pypi', 'archpkg', 'gems', 'pacman',
   'cmd', 'bitbucket', 'gcode_hg', 'gcode_svn', 'regex', 'manual', 'vcs',
+  'cpan',
 )
 
 def get_version(name, conf, callback):

nvchecker/source/cpan.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import json
+from functools import partial
+
+from tornado.httpclient import AsyncHTTPClient
+
+# Using metacpan
+CPAN_URL = 'https://api.metacpan.org/release/%s'
+
+def get_version(name, conf, callback):
+  repo = conf.get('cpan') or name
+  url = CPAN_URL % repo
+  AsyncHTTPClient().fetch(url, user_agent='lilydjwg/nvchecker',
+                          callback=partial(_cpan_done, name, callback))
+
+def _cpan_done(name, callback, res):
+  data = json.loads(res.body.decode('utf-8'))
+  version = data['version']
+  callback(name, version)