WordPress Plugin Change Tracker

An Apify Actor for tracking WordPress.org directory plugin metadata. It reads only WordPress.org's public Plugin Information API (api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/) and supports plugin slugs and canonical WordPress.org plugin URLs.

Supported fields

• Plugin name and publisher
• Current version and last-updated timestamp
• Changelog page URL and a change marker derived from the API changelog section
• WordPress minimum version, WordPress tested-up-to version, and PHP minimum version when supplied by WordPress.org
• Canonical WordPress.org source URL
• Comparison with the last successful snapshot in the persistent wordpress-plugin-change-tracker-snapshots Key-Value Store

No JetBrains, Atlassian, or other marketplace sources are supported. The Actor does not access or alter any other AFK Digital projects or marketplace listings.

Input

{
  "plugins": ["akismet", "https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/"],
  "requestDelayMs": 1000
}

Provide 1–50 unique plugin slugs or canonical URLs. Requests are sequential, limited to 2 MB responses, and time out after 15 seconds. The delay is 500–10000 ms (default 1000 ms).

Output

Successful records use baseline the first time a plugin is checked, unchanged when compared fields match, and changed when a verified API field differs. Snapshots persist across Actor runs in the named Key-Value Store. changes identifies each changed field and its previous/current values. A WordPress.org API error or incomplete record yields status: "error"; that result does not overwrite the last successful snapshot and is not billed.

The changelog content is represented by a SHA-256 change marker; the Actor returns the official changelog page link rather than copying the full changelog into the output.

Pricing

Pay-per-event bills one plugin-checked event per successful plugin record. Error records are not billed, and automatic dataset-item billing is disabled to avoid double charges. Current price: $0.0016 per successful plugin record, 20% below a comparable Apify Actor at $0.002 per check. Apify platform usage is included in the event price.

Local development

npm install
npm test
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage node src/main.js

For publishing, build and push this folder using the account's Apify CLI authentication, then complete Store metadata and PPE event pricing in Apify Console.