Top 1000 most popular WordPress plugins

popular-wp-plugins.php

<?php

// To create one CSV file:
// $ cat stats/stats-* > stats.csv

$query = array(
	'browse' => 'popular',
	'per_page' => 100,
	'fields' => array(
		'name' => true,
		'slug' => true,
		'downloaded' => true,
		'last_updated' => true,
		'description' => false,
		'contributors' => false,
		'ratings' => false,
		'short_description' => false,
		'rating' => false,
		'num_ratings' => false,
		'compatibility' => false,
		'contributors' => false,
		'author' => false,
		'author_profile' => false,
	)
);

$page = 1;
$request = true;

while ( $page < 11 ) {
	$query['page'] = $page;
	$filename = sprintf( 'stats/stats-%d.csv', $page );

	$request = wp_remote_post(
		'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/',
		array(
			'body' => array(
				'action' => 'query_plugins',
				'request' => serialize( (object) $query ),
			)
		)
	);

	$rows = unserialize( $request['body'] );
	$fp = fopen( $filename, 'w' );

	foreach ( $rows->plugins as &$plugin ) {
		unset( $plugin->contributors );

		fputcsv( $fp, (array)$plugin );
	}

	$page++;
}