This bot periodically sends smart HTTP GET against cpan.cpantesters.org fresh CPAN mirror to get semi-realtime updates. The delay is usually less than a minute (about 30 seconds) and is much faster than other bots based on search.cpan.org. - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

To receive the updates in your program, you can subscribe to this bot and receive notifications via email or IM (XMPP) or use FriendFeed's realtime API http://friendfeed.com/api... (with AnyEvent::FriendFeed::Realtime) to receive them via HTTP long-poll. - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

The code running this bot is now on github: http://github.com/miyagaw... You're NOT supposed to run this code to get updates from cpantesters: instead, use this bot updates -- that's the point! - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

The bot now publishes PubSubHubbub pings to http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/ and http://superfeedr.com/hubbub using the feed (topic) URL http://friendfeed.com/cpan... So if you're a webhook guy, you can receive the realtime updates via one of them. - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Cool! - Brett Slatkin

I created a frontend tool for this bot http://github.com/miyagaw... It's integrated with the CPAN toolchain, so you can type "cpanf Module::Name" when you receive updates from this bot and can install with your CPAN shell. "install App::CPAN::Fresh" and enjoy! - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa