Awesome Perl

A curated list of awesome Perl resources, including frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-go.

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Contents

• Awesome Perl
  • Args
  • Audio
    • Digital Signal Processing
  • Benchmarks
  • Caches
  • Class Builder
  • CLI
  • Cloud
  • Cryptography
  • Commercial WebServices
  • Container
  • Data Format
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
    • Relational Databases
    • NoSQL Databases
  • Date & Time
  • Devices
  • DevOps
  • Email
  • Event Loops
  • Exception Handling
  • DOM Manipulation
  • File Manipulation
  • Form Frameworks
  • Images
  • List Manipulation
  • Logging
  • Module Development
  • Network
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Processes and Threads
  • Profiling
  • Protocol
  • Queueing
  • REST Frameworks
  • Science/Numerics
  • Stream Manipulation
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
    • Testing Frameworks
    • Test Double
    • Coverage
  • Tools
  • Type Checking
  • Video
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
  • Web Frameworks-Like
  • Web Scraping
  • Network Security
  • Digital Forensics
  • Reverse Engineering

Args

Libraries for argument manifestation and validation.

• Data::Validator - Rule based validator on type constraint system.
• Params::Util - Simple, compact and correct param-checking functions.
• Params::ValidationCompiler - Validate method/function parameters.
• Smart::Args

Audio

• Audio::CD - Interface to libcdaudio (cd + cddb)
• Audio::Wav - Modules for reading & writing Microsoft WAV files.
• Audio::SndFile - Perl library for reading and writing sound files
• Audio::Ao - A Perl wrapper for the Ao audio library
• MIDI::ALSA - the perl ALSA library, plus some interface functions

DSP

• Audio::Analyzer - Demodulate Audio through FFT and perl!
• Audio::Analyzer::ToneDetect - Detect freq of tones in an audio file or stream

Benchmarks

Libraries for benchmarking

• Benchmark
• Dumbbench
• Parallel::Benchmark - Benchmark in multiprocesses

Caches

Libraries to talk to Cache Softwares

• CHI - Unified cache handling interface, think DBI for caches
• CHI::Driver::DBI - DBI driver for CHI
• CHI::Driver::DBIC - DBIx::Class driver for CHI
• CHI::Driver::Memcached - Memcached driver for CHI
• CHI::Driver::MongoDB - MongoDB driver for CHI
• CHI::Driver::Redis - Redis driver for CHI
• Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::CHI - Use CHI module to handle storage backend for session data
• CGI::Application::Plugin::CHI - CGI-App plugin for CHI caching interface
• Mojolicious::Plugin::CHI - Interact with CHI caches

Class Builder

Libraries to support writing classes and meta programming

• Class::Accessor::Lite - Simple accessor generator.
• Class::Accessor::Lite::Lazy - Generate lazy accessors.
• Homer - Simple Prototype-based object system.
• Mo - Micro Objects. Mo is less.
• Moo - Class builder supporting meta programming.
• Moose - The one and only, Moose.
• Mouse - Yet another class builder like Moo/Moose.
• Object::Pad - class Example { has $x; method reader { return $x } }, experimental proving-ground for Cor
• Object::Tiny - A class builder that is terse, fast, and tiny.

CLI

Libraries for developing CLI applications

• App::Cmd - Write command line apps with less suffering.
• Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options.

Cloud

• AWS::CloudFront - Lightweight interface to Amazon CloudFront CDN
• AWS::S3 - Lightweight interface to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
• Net::Amazon::EC2 - Interface to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment.
• Net::AWS::SES - Perl extension that implements Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) client
• WebService::DigitalOcean - Access the DigitalOcean RESTful API (v2)
• WebService::Dropbox - Interface to Dropbox API

Cryptography

• Bitcoin::Crypto - Bitcoin cryptography in Perl
• CryptX - Cryptographic toolkit

Commercial WebServices

• Net::Xero - Interface to Xero accounting
• PagerDuty::Agent - A perl PagerDuty client
• WebService::Spotify - A simple interface to the Spotify Web API
• WebService::Xero - Access Xero Accounting Package Public and Private Application API
• WWW::Shopify - object representing acess to a particular Shopify store
• WWW::Spotify - Spotify Web API Wrapper

Container

Libraries for Singleton Pattern implementation.

• Object::Container

Data Format

Libraries for serializing, formatting and parsing

• BSON - Binary JSON format
• CBOR::Free - Support for CBOR, IETF’s “binary JSON”
• Data::Dumper::Simple - Reduce and faster Data::Dumper and eval() equivalent
• Data::MessagePack
• JSON::PP
• JSON::XS
• Sereal
• Storable
• Text::CSV
• Text::CSV_XS
• Text::Markdown
• TOML
• XML::LibXML
• XML::Compile::Schema - Interpret schema elements and types: create processors for XML messages.
• XML::Compile::SOAP - Implements the SOAP 1.1 protocol, client side.
• XML::Compile::WSDL - Use SOAP with a WSDL version 1.1 communication specification file.
• YAML

Database

Libraries for dealing with relational databases

• DBI
• DBIx::Connector - Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management
• DBIx::Handler - Fork-safe DBI handler
• DBIx::Inspector
• DBIx::QueryLog
• DBIx::Sunny - Useful DBI Wrapper
• DBIx::TransactionManager

Database Drivers

Libraries for using specific database products

Relational Databases

• DBD::CSV
• DBD::Firebird
• DBD::MariaDB - MariaDB and MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
• DBD::mysql
• DBD::ODBC - Any ODBC Driver. MS-SQL w/ placeholders
• DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
• DBD::Pg - PostgreSQL driver for DBI.
• DBD::SQLite
• DBD::Sybase - Sybase and MS-SQL. No placeholders w/ MS-SQL though

NoSQL Databases

• Cache::Memcached::Fast
• Mango - Pure-Perl non-blocking I/O MongoDB driver
• Redis
• Redis::Fast - Perl wrapper around hiredis driver
• Search::Elasticsearch - Offical Elasticsearch client library
• UnQLite

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times

• DateTime
• Time::Moment
• Time::Piece

Devices

Libraries to talk to physical devices

• Device::SerialPort - Generic Serial Port library for serial line communication
• Device::Modem - Talk to modem devices conneted via serial port
• Device::Onkyo - Control Onkyo/Integra AV equipment via LAN or Serial
• Chipcard::PCSC::Card - Control Smart card using perl and PCSC
• Device::XBee::API - Control XBee Device using pure perl code
• Device::Firmata - module for controlling Firmata devices like Arduino

DevOps Tools

Libraries that help when you want to deploy software across networks on several hosts/are working across computer networks

• Rex - Remote Execution

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

• Email::Sender
• Email::Reply
• Email::Stuffer

Event Loops

Libraries for various event loops. Asynchronous programming if you like

• AE - Simpler, faster, newer AnyEvent API
• AnyEvent - the DBI of event loop programming
• EV - Uses libev, very fast and popular. Default for AnyEvent if present
• Event - Works well, but older
• IO::Async - Asynchronous event-driven programming
• POE - Common interface for several event loops
• Promise::XS - Promises in Perl

Exception Handling

Libraries that assist with and/or provide alternatives to eval{ die() }

• autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
• Exception::Class - A module that allows you to declare real exception classes in Perl
• Syntax::Keyword::Try - a try/catch/finally syntax for perl
• Throwable - a role for classes that can be thrown
• Try::Tiny - minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
• TryCatch - first class try catch semantics for Perl, without source filters

DOM Manipulation

• HTML5::DOM - Super fast html5 DOM library with css selectors (based on Modest/MyHTML).

File Manipulation

• File::Util - Easy, versatile, portable file handling.
• Path::Tiny - Simple object-oriented file manipulation.

Form Frameworks

Libraries that take the boredom & repetition out of (web and UI) forms

• Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu - Use HTML::FormFu in Catalyst.
• CGI::FormBuilder - Easily generate and process stateful forms.
• Form::Sensible - A sensible way to handle form based user interface.
• Form::Tiny - Forms reusing Type::Tiny type constraints.
• Form::Toolkit - A toolkit to build Data centric Forms.
• HTML::FormFu - HTML Form Creation, Rendering and Validation Framework.
• HTML::FormFu::ExtJS - ExtJS form generation from HTML::FormFu config files.
• HTML::FormHandler - HTML forms using Moose.
• Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFields - Lightweight, flexible form builder with validation and filtering.
• WWW::Form - Simple and extendable module that allows developers to handle HTML form input validation and display flexibly and consistently.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images

• Image::Magick - An object-oriented interface to ImageMagick's image composing libraries.
• Imager
• GD - Interface to Gd Graphics Library
• Image::Info - Get image informations
• Image::PNG::Libpng - Perl interface for libpng
• Graphics::TIFF - Perl wrapper for libtiff
• Image::BMP - Perl bitmap image parser and viewer

List Manipulation

Libraries for manipulation lists (arrays)

• Array::Unique - Tie-able array that allows only unique values
• List::AllUtils - Combines List::Util, List::SomeUtils and List::UtilsBy in one bite-sized package
• List::Compare - Compare elements of two or more lists
• List::Gen - Provides functions for generating lists
• List::MoreUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
• List::SomeUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
• List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
• List::UtilsBy - higher-order list utility functions

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files

• Log::Dispatch
• Log::Log4perl
• Log::Minimal

Module Development

Libraries that simplify and improve Perl module development

• Dist::Zilla - http://dzil.org/
• Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool

Network

Libraries that help when you are dealing with computer networks

• DOCSIS::ConfigFile - Decodes and encodes DOCSIS config files
• NetAddr::MAC - Handle MAC addresses

Libraries that help when you are working across computer networks

• Net::SSH::Perl - SSH client implemented in Perl.
• Net::SSH2 - Wrapper for libssh2.
• Net::OpenSSH - Run commands remotely using the OpenSSH client.
• Net::OpenSSH::Parallel - Run remote commands in parallel using the OpenSSH client.
• Net::SSH::Any - Run remote commands using any module or binary client available.
• Net::SFTP::Foreign - SFTP client for remote file access.
• Object::Remote - Run Perl code on remote machines.
• Net::CLI::Interact - Automates interactive programs.
• Net::Appliance::Session - Automates interaction with appliances.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques

• DBIx::Class
• Rose::DB
• Teng

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management

• App::cpanminus
• Carton
• Pinto - Powerful local CPAN repos

Processes and Threads

Libraries for managing processes and threads

• Parallel::ForkManager - A simple parallel processing fork manager
• Parallel::Prefork - A simple prefork server framework
• Proclet - Minimalistic supervisor, a Perl port of foreman

Profiling

Libraries for examining run-time activity of your program

• Devel::KYTProf - Very light profiler for I/Os such as HTTP request-responses and SQL queries.
• Devel::NYTProf - Code profiler.

Protocol

Protocol clients and libraries

• Furl - Faster HTTP(S) Client
• HTTP::Tiny - Minimal and fast client. Included in the standard packages.
• LWP::UserAgent - Popular HTTP(S) Client
• Net::Curl - (libcurl)[https://curl.se/libcurl/] integration
• Net::DHCP - Send and receive DHCP packets
• Net::DNS - Resolve DNS host names
• Protocol::DBus - D-Bus in (pure) Perl

Queueing

Message Queue, Job Queue System..

• Gearman
• Minion - Pure-Perl job queue
• Net::RabbitMQ
• Net::Stomp
• Qudo
• Resque
• TheSchwartz

Science/Numerics

Hand-picked modules for research, science, numerics and hyper-computing

• BioPerl
• Chart::Clicker - Powerful, extensible charting
• PDL
• PDL (CPAN)
• PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
• PDL::IO::*
• PDL::LinearAlgebra
• PDL::Stats
• Physics::*

Stream Manipulation

Libraries for manipulating event streams

• RxPerl - Perl implementation of Reactive Extensions / rxjs

REST Frameworks

Libraries for developing REST applications

• Catalyst::Action::REST - Automated REST Method Dispatching
• Dancer2::Plugin::REST - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer2
• Dancer::Plugin::REST - A plugin for writing RESTful apps with Dancer
• Raisin - a REST API micro framework for Perl
• Squatting - A Camping-inspired Web Microframework for Perl

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating

• HTML::Template - Templates for web pages
• Template::Alloy - TT2/3, HT, HTE, Tmpl, and Velocity Engine
• Template::Toolkit - Very Popular Template Processing System
• Text::MicroTemplate - Fast, simple and safe template engine written in pure-Perl and core modules.
• Text::MicroTemplate::Extended - Extended Text::MicroTemplate.
• Text::Template - Templates with embedded perl
• Text::Xslate - Faster template engine with XS. Supports multiple syntaxes.
• Tiffany - Generic interface for template engines. It makes it easy to use multiple template engines.
• Template::Magic - Magic merger of runtime values with templates.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks

• Test::Base - A Data Driven Testing Framework
• Test::Base::Less - Limited version of Test::Base
• Test::BDD::Cucumber - Implementation of the popular Cucumber framework in Perl
• Test::Class - Class-based testing. Support "setup" and "teardown".
• Test::Deep - Test deep and complex data structures with great flexibility.
• Test::Deep::Matcher
• Test::Harness - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
• Test::Kantan - simple, flexible, fun "Testing framework"
• Test::More

Test Double

• Test::Exception
• Test::Fatal - Simple module for verifying exceptions.
• Test::Mock::Guard - Mocking package subroutines.
• Test::MockTime
• Test::mysqld
• Test::TCP - Launch temporary TCP Server
• Test::Time - Simple module for faking system time.

Coverage

• Devel::Cover
• Devel::Cover::Report::Coveralls Report to Coveralls

Tools

Some useful tools

• App::Ack - ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
• App::Nopaste - Post to various pastebins from the CLI
• Daiku - Make for Perl.
• Data::Printer - Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects.
• Reply - Read-eval-print-loop(REPL) command-line tool.
• Riji - Static site generator using markdown and git mainly for blogging.
• Smart::Comments - Comments that do more than just sit there.

Libraries for developping command line applications

• Toolbox::Simple - Simplfy some common tasks in Perl.
• Script::Toolbox - Framework for the daily business scripts.
• Devel::Kit- Handy toolbox of things to ease development/debugging.

Libraries for handling configuration files

• Config::Tiny - Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible

Type checking

• MooseX::Types - Moose types management tool
• Type::Tiny - Tiny, yet comprehensive type library

Video

• FFmpeg - Interface to FFmpeg, a video converter written in C
• Video::Info - Retrieve video properties such as: height width codec fps
• Vlc::Engine - use Vlc media player with Perl
• VideoLAN::LibVLC - Perl bindings for libvlc.so
• Video::Generator - Perl class for video generation

Web Frameworks

Libraries for developing Web applications

• Amon2
• Catalyst - Overflowing with features. Very popular.
• Dancer (Official site)
• Dancer2
• Gantry - Web application framework for mod_perl, cgi, etc.
• Kelp - Plack-focused Perl web framework
• Kossy - A Web framework with simple interface.
• Mojolicious - An all in one framework.
• Poet - a modern Perl web framework for Mason developers

Middlewares

Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares

• Gazelle - Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks
• Plack - PSGI server implementation and utilities for Web applications.
• Server::Starter - Process manager with the "graceful restart" feature.
• Starlet - High-performance PSGI Server
• Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
• Twiggy - Event-driven PSGI application server

Web Frameworks-Like

Somewhere between templates and full on frameworks

• Embperl - Building dynamic Websites with Perl (sort of like Perl crossed with PHP)
• Mason - Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond

Web Scraping

Libraries for extracting some information from websites

• Web::Scraper
• WWW::Mechanize
• WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS - automate the PhantomJS browser
• WWW::Scripter - For scripting web sites that have scripts
• WWW::Selenium

Network Security

Some great libraries for starting the world of Network security with Perl

• Net::Pcap - Interface to the pcap LBL packet capture library
• Net::Ncap - Perl binding to the ncap network data capture library
• Net::Frame - Perl framework for frame crafting
• NetPacket - assemble/disassemble network packets at the protocol level
• Net::Write - portable interface to open and send raw data to network
• Net::Analysis - Perl library for analysing network traffic
• Net::Silk - Perl's Interface to the SiLK network flow library
• Net::Inspect - Perl library for inspection of data on various network layers
• Net::Tshark - Perl interface for Tshark network capture utility
• Net::Sharktools - Wireshark's packet inspection capabilities in Perl
• File::PCAP - Read, Write and manipulate PCAP file format through Perl
• Net::P0f - Perl interface to p0f utility, usefull for finger-printing os
• Net::Pcap::Reassemble - Perl IP fragment reassembly for Net::Pcap
• Nagios::NRPE - Pure perl Nagios NRPE implementation
• Monitoring::Plugin - A family of perl modules to streamline writing Naemon, Nagios, Icinga or Shinken (and compatible) plugins
• Net::Connection::Sniffer - practical Perl library for MiTM connections
• Net::ARP - Library for crafting ARP packets
• SNMPMonitor - Perl extension for writing SNMP Monitors
• Net::LibNIDS - Perl interface for the Network Intrusion Detection System library
• Parse::Snort - Perl Snort rules parser
• Net::Wireless::802_11::WPA::CLI - Perl WPA_CLI interface
• IO::Socket::SSL::Intercept - library for intercepting SSL connections through Perl

Metadata Forensics

General Metadata files parser, usefull during forensics investigations

• Image::ExifTool - General metadata parser and viewer framework

Reverse Engineering

Libraries used for disassembly assembly operations, ELF files and bytecode

• Disassembly - Decompiles binary bytecode to readable and recompilable bytecode assembler
• Python::Bytecode - Parse Python bytecode
• B::Bytecode - Compiles a Perl script into a bytecode format that could be loaded later
• Perf::ARM - Use ARM instructions in Perl
• Asm::Z80::Table - assemble / disassemble all Z80 CPU assembly instructions with Perl
• X86::Disasm - Disassemble Intel x86 instructions with Perl
• Disassemble::X86 - Another library for disassembe X86 instructions
• X86::Udis86 - Interface for the C Udis disassembler
• Asm::X86 - List of instructions and registers of x86-compatible processors, validating and converting instructions and memory references
• ELF::Writer - write and read executable ELF files

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in:

• bayandin/awesome-awesomeness
• emijrp/awesome-awesome
• fleveque/awesome-awesomes
• sindresorhus/awesome
• t3chnoboy/awesome-awesome-awesome

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