Stand-alone WordPress.org plugin api access

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<?php
// Stand-alone WordPress.org plugin api access

$url = 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/';

$fields = array( 
	'action' => 'query_plugins', 
	'request' => serialize( (object) array(
		'author' => 'trepmal',
		//'search' => 'howdy',
		// 'page' => 1,
		// 'per_page' => 20
	) )
);

//url-ify the data for the POST
$fields_string = array();
foreach( $fields as $key => $value) { 
	$fields_string[] .= "{$key}={$value}";
}
$fields_string = implode( '&', $fields_string );

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, count( $fields ) );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
curl_close($ch);

$result = unserialize( $result );

//die( '<pre>'. print_r($result, true) .'</pre>' );

echo '<ul>';
foreach ( $result->plugins as $r ){
	echo '<li>'. $r->name .'</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';