wordpress-plugin-stats-scraper.js

Scrapes daily installation metrics for a public WordPress plugin hosted on WordPress.org (for use with cron)

Getting Started

Scrapes and saves the following info:

• date: The current date
• version: The most recent plugin version
• installsActive: The current number of installs (rounded to 100's)
• downloadsYesterday: The number of yesterday's new downloads
• downloadsTotal: The number of total downloads
• issuesMonthTotal: The number of support issues reported in the last month
• issuesMonthResolved: The number of resolved support issues in the last month

Prerequisites

The script is based on PhantomJS. On Linux:

apt-get install phantomjs

Running

phantomjs wordpress-plugin-stats-scraper.js <plugin_slug> [<output_file.csv>]

• To see usage instructions

phantomjs wordpress-plugin-stats-scraper.js

• To save today's statistics for plugin with slug akismet

phantomjs wordpress-plugin-stats-scraper.js akismet

The above will write or append to akismet-installs.csv in the current working directory.

• To save today's statistics for plugin with slug akismet to file /home/user/akismet-statistics.csv:

phantomjs wordpress-plugin-stats-scraper.js akismet /home/user/akismet-statistics.csv

Built With

• PhantomJS - Scriptable Headless Browser

Authors

• Alexandros Georgiou - Initial work - github blog

License

This project is licensed under the WTFPL License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• A big thank you to the nice people at WordPress.org and to the PhantomJS developers!