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 http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress.org_API which is just links and some more information on http://dd32.id.au/projects/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs/ which provides details on WordPress Plugin Information API. So after some tweaking and testing here is the final code to get the download count.
<?php $payload = array( 'action' => 'plugin_information', 'request' => serialize( (object)array( 'slug' => 'i-recommend-this', 'fields' => array( 'downloaded' => true, 'description' => false ) ) ) ); $body = wp_remote_post( 'http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/', array( 'body' => $payload) ); $body = unserialize($body['body']); echo '<p>Downloaded: ' . print_r( $body->downloaded, true ) . '</p>'; ?>
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.
I will write a plugin to do this but until then if you know a better way, please share your ideas in comments.
Updates
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:
/** If plugins_api isn't available, load the file that holds the function */ if ( ! function_exists( 'plugins_api' ) ) require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php' ); /** Prepare our query */ $call_api = plugins_api( 'plugin_information', array( 'slug' => 'i-recommend-this' ) ); /** Display the results */ if ( is_wp_error( $call_api ) ) echo '<pre>' . print_r( $call_api->get_error_message(), true ) . '</pre>'; else //echo '<pre>' . print_r( $call_api, true ) . '</pre>'; echo '<p>' . print_r( $call_api->downloaded, true ) . '</p>';258
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