More on the CPAN API survey

OK, so I've found WWW::RottenTomatoes and WWW::Google::PageSpeedOnline by the simple expedient of searching on RESTful API and looking for everything that seems to be a client.

Interesting modules will break down into:

• Individual specific APIs and
• API support modules.

What I actually want to do is the following:

• Find (what I believe to be) a complete list of all web API modules on CPAN, with authors and place in the nomenclature. List any support modules they use.
• Find any support modules that seem likely that aren't in use by existing APIs on CPAN.
• Provide an initial statistical analysis of some sort.
• Compare code and techniques between all these modules.
• Derive a descriptive language for the client side of an API and a mapping between this language and the modules in existence. Or something. Mostly I just want to do the comparison.

Common documentation of the APIs in question will be another useful thing associated with (but not part of) the survey. Here's Google Webmaster Tools as another example. I want to take that and encode it in a specific API definition/documentation language.