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friends-of-wp/pluginretriever
=============================

Small and flexible library to retrieve all plugins from the WordPress plugin directory.

1.2.0(3y ago)289PHP

Since Apr 15Pushed 3y ago2 watchersCompare

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Friends of WP - Plugin Retriever
================================

[](#friends-of-wp---plugin-retriever)

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This is a simple library that helps to retrieve the information of all plugins that are located in the WordPress.org plugin directory.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the Plugin Retriever you can use composer, clone the repository or just download the ZIP file.

```
composer require friends-of-wp/pluginretriever
```

Exporter
--------

[](#exporter)

- **CSV** - Export the plugins into a CSV file
- **Array** - Export the data into a PHP array that can be used afterwards. Warning: this array can be quite big.
- **Cli status** - Outputs the data to the CLI
- **Symfony console output** - Outputs data to the CLI via the symfony `OutputInterface`.

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

We prepared some examples in the `/example` directory that are easy to understand and can be reused.

CSV
---

[](#csv)

Exports the plugins into a CSV file. Warning: currently there are more than 55.000 plugins in the directory. Excel and Google Spreadsheet are not able to process such file sizes.

```
php example/retrieve-as-csv.php plugins.csv
```

Info: at the moment the retrievers are configured to fetch all plugins . if you want to change that just change the parameter in the retriever constructor or add a second parameter to the command line script with the number of pages you want to retrieve.

```
php example/retrieve-as-csv.php plugins.csv 10
```

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~4 days

Total

3

Last Release

1116d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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