Since last 3 days, I have been looking out for a way to get the total download count of my plugin.<\/p>\n
But there is almost no information about API for WordPress.org except on\u00a0http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/WordPress.org_API<\/a>\u00a0which is just links and some more information on\u00a0http:\/\/dd32.id.au\/projects\/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs\/<\/a>\u00a0which provides details on WordPress Plugin Information API. So after some tweaking and testing here is the final code to get the download count.<\/p>\n\n [cc lang=”php”]<?php $body = wp_remote_post( ‘http:\/\/api.wordpress.org\/plugins\/info\/1.0\/’, array( ‘body’ => $payload) );<\/p>\n $body = unserialize($body[‘body’]); ?>[\/cc]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now to avoid requesting information from WordPress.org on every page load, the required information can be saved in a transient and refreshed once a day. This is in no way a final code. I have not placed any additional logic to display arrays, etc. So just use this as a starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will write a plugin to do this but until then if you know a better way, please share your ideas in comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well it seems there is plugin_api using which most of the things I did above was unnecessary. If we use plugins_api we can get the total download count using few lines of code below:<\/p>\n\n\n [cc lang=”php”]<\/p>\n \/** If plugins_api isn’t available, load the file that holds the function *\/ \/** Prepare our query *\/ \/** Display the results *\/ [\/cc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since last 3 days, I have been looking out for a way to get the total download count of my plugin. But there is almost no information about API for WordPress.org except on\u00a0http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/WordPress.org_API\u00a0which is just links and some more information on\u00a0http:\/\/dd32.id.au\/projects\/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs\/\u00a0which provides details on WordPress Plugin Information API. So after some tweaking and testing here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishchouhan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n$payload = array(
\n‘action’ => ‘plugin_information’,
\n‘request’ => serialize(
\n(object)array(
\n‘slug’ => ‘i-recommend-this’,
\n‘fields’ => array(
\n‘downloaded’ => true,
\n‘description’ => false
\n)
\n)
\n)
\n);<\/p>\n
\necho ‘<p>Downloaded: ‘ . print_r( $body->downloaded, true ) . ‘<\/p>’;<\/p>\nUpdates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\nif ( ! function_exists( ‘plugins_api’ ) )
\nrequire_once( ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin\/includes\/plugin-install.php’ );<\/p>\n
\n$call_api = plugins_api( ‘plugin_information’,
\narray(
\n‘slug’ => ‘i-recommend-this’
\n)
\n);<\/p>\n
\nif ( is_wp_error( $call_api ) )
\necho ‘<pre>’ . print_r( $call_api->get_error_message(), true ) . ‘<\/pre>’;
\nelse
\n\/\/echo ‘<pre>’ . print_r( $call_api, true ) . ‘<\/pre>’;
\necho ‘<p>’ . print_r( $call_api->downloaded, true ) . ‘<\/p>’;<\/p>\n