WordPress Plugin Scraper — Installs, Ratings, Downloads & Versions

Scrape the WordPress.org plugin directory — over 59,000 plugins with active install counts, lifetime downloads, star ratings, version and compatibility data, and support-forum health.

Search by keyword, browse the most popular or top-rated, filter by tag or author, or pull exact plugins by slug.

No API key required.

What you get

Field	Description
slug, name	Plugin identifier and display name
author, authorProfile	Developer and their WordPress.org profile
version	Current release
activeInstalls	Active installations — the real adoption number
downloaded	Lifetime downloads
rating	Stars out of 5
ratingPercent	Raw 0–100 score as WordPress.org stores it
numRatings	How many people rated it
lastUpdated, added	Release recency and age
requiresWp, testedUpTo, requiresPhp	Compatibility
supportThreads, supportThreadsResolved	Support-forum volume
supportResolutionRate	Percentage of threads resolved — a maintenance-quality signal
tags	Directory tags
shortDescription	Plugin summary
downloadLink, homepage, icon, url	Assets and links

Example input

{
  "searchTerm": "seo",
  "minActiveInstalls": 10000,
  "maxPlugins": 100
}

Other modes:

{ "browse": "popular", "maxPlugins": 500 }
{ "tag": "ecommerce", "browse": "top-rated" }
{ "author": "automattic" }
{ "slugs": ["wordpress-seo", "elementor", "woocommerce"] }

Example output

{
  "slug": "wordpress-seo",
  "name": "Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI",
  "version": "28.5",
  "author": "Yoast",
  "activeInstalls": 10000000,
  "downloaded": 1002566087,
  "rating": 4.8,
  "ratingPercent": 96,
  "numRatings": 27820,
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-15 6:43am GMT",
  "testedUpTo": "7.1.2",
  "supportThreads": 100,
  "supportThreadsResolved": 71,
  "supportResolutionRate": 71,
  "url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/"
}

Plugin names and descriptions are HTML-encoded at the source; the actor decodes them, so you get Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO rather than Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO.

Who uses this

• Plugin developers — track your own install growth and your competitors' week over week
• Market research — find categories where demand is high and the incumbents are stale or badly rated
• WordPress agencies — vet plugins before shipping them to clients: is it updated, tested on the current WP version, is support answered?
• Security and maintenance teams — flag abandoned plugins (lastUpdated old, testedUpTo behind) across the plugins your sites depend on
• Acquisition scouts — spot plugins with large install bases, weak support and an inactive author
• Content and SEO teams — build "best plugins for X" roundups from real numbers rather than opinion

About activeInstalls

WordPress.org reports active installs in buckets, not exact figures — you will see 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 1000000 and so on. That is how the directory publishes the data; no source gives an exact count. downloaded is an exact lifetime total and is more granular, which makes it the better field for measuring short-term momentum.

Pricing

Pay per result. Each plugin returned counts as one result.

Notes

• Data comes from the public WordPress.org plugin information API.
• rating is derived from the directory's 0–100 score; both forms are included so you can use whichever your pipeline expects.
• supportResolutionRate is null when a plugin has no support threads in the current window rather than 0, so an unused forum is not mistaken for a neglected one.
• This is an unofficial actor and is not affiliated with WordPress.org, Automattic or the WordPress Foundation.