You can't download them using the CPAN shell?
http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/scripts/cpan
> Also need a good solution
> for effieient HTML content extraction...
Have you tried searching google for this? You can search for people
using the two modules mentioned above. I saw someone talk about this
on the London.pm mailing list [1], you might start there.
Thanks,
Brian
[1] http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20100426/019515.html
Please see this link:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/scripts/cpan#Examples
It has examples of using the cpan script to download and install Perl modules.
Thanks,
Brian