WordPress plugin API sample-use

wordpress-plugin-api.php

<?php
/*
Retrieve items from the WordPress.org plugin API

Original source: http://pastebin.com/7Ji8rD2P
Docs v1.0: http://dd32.id.au/projects/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs/

Usage:
http://{host}/wordpress-plugin-api.php?page_start=9&per=20&pages=10&info=1
  GET['page_start'] => Page-numer to start retreiving data on
  GET['per'] => Plugins to show per-page
  GET['pages'] => Number of pages to retrieve
  GET['info'] => Show total pagination data: Any # other than 0 => true; Empty or 0 => false

*/

function get_api_data( $per_page, $page )
{
    $fields = array(
        'downloaded' => true,
        'author' => false,
        'author_profile' => false,
        'contributors' => false,
        'requires' => true,
        'tested' => false,
        'compatibility' => false,
        'homepage' => false,
        'description' => false,
        'last_updated' => true,
        'added' => true
    );
    $body = (object) array('browse' => 'new', 'page' => $page, 'per_page' => $per_page, 'fields' => $fields);
    $post_data = array('action' => 'query_plugins', 'request' => serialize($body));

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $return = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    return unserialize($return);
}


// Manual pagination using GET params
$item_count = ( isset($_GET['per']) && is_numeric($_GET['per']) ) ? $_GET['per'] : 50;
$page_start = ( isset($_GET['page_start']) && is_numeric($_GET['page_start']) ) ? $_GET['page_start'] : 1;
$page_count = ( isset($_GET['pages']) && is_numeric($_GET['pages']) ) ? $_GET['pages'] : 1;
$display_meta = ( isset($_GET['info']) && is_numeric($_GET['info']) ) ? (bool)$_GET['info'] : false;

if ( $display_meta ) {
    $plugin_api_raw = get_api_data(1, 1);
    //var_dump( $plugin_api_raw -> info );
    $number_plugins = $plugin_api_raw -> info;
    echo '<h1>Plugins with available data:&nbsp;' . $number_plugins['results'] . '</h1><hr />';
}

// Write returned WP-plugin data to screen
for ( $i = 0; $i < $page_count; $i++ ) {
    $current_page = $page_start + $i;
    $plugin_api_raw = get_api_data( $item_count, $current_page );
    $plugin_data_list = $plugin_api_raw -> plugins;
    
    
    foreach( $plugin_data_list as $plugin_data_line ) {
        // Output per-plugin info
        foreach ( $plugin_data_line as $k => $v ) {
            if ( $k == 'name' ) echo '<h2>' . $v . '</h2><p>';
            else echo '<strong>' . ucfirst($k) . ':</strong>&nbsp;' . $v . '<br />';
        }
        
        echo '</p>';
    }
}

After using this on Nov 1, 2011, the array of $fields does not appear to have any affect on what data is returned. Have bandwidth ready, all data appears to be returned regardless of $fields true|false