Created CPAN mirror status checker

data.json

@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
         "upstream": "https://download.ceph.com/",
         "file": "timestamp"
     },
+    "CPAN": {
+        "out_of_date_interval": 172800
+    },
     "Cygwin": {
         "out_of_date_since": null,
         "out_of_date_interval": 86400,

main.py

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ import json # import json to read distro info stored in json file
 
 import datefinder # another date finding library
 
+CSC_MIRROR = "http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/"
+
 def checker(directory_URL, file_name):
     page = requests.get(directory_URL).text
     indexOfFile = page.find(file_name)
@@ -53,8 +55,7 @@ def ipfire_checker():
 
 def general_checker(data_json, distro_name):
     """General distro checker"""
-    csc_url = "http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/" + data_json[distro_name]["csc"] \
-        + data_json[distro_name]["file"]
+    csc_url = CSC_MIRROR + data_json[distro_name]["csc"] + data_json[distro_name]["file"]
     upstream_url = data_json[distro_name]["upstream"] + data_json[distro_name]["file"]
     return requests.get(csc_url).text == requests.get(upstream_url).text
 
@@ -78,6 +79,17 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         current_time = int(time.time())
         for distro in data:
             try:
+                if distro == "CPAN":
+                    res_json = requests.get("http://mirrors.cpan.org/cpan-json.txt").json()
+                    for mirror in res_json:
+                        if mirror["url"] == f"{CSC_MIRROR}CPAN/":
+                            if current_time - int(mirror["age"]) \
+                                    > data[distro]["out_of_date_interval"]:
+                                print(f"Failure: {distro} out-of-sync")
+                            else:
+                                print(f"Success: {distro} up-to-date")
+                            break
+                    continue
                 if distro == "IPFire":
                     checker_result = ipfire_checker()
                 else: