WordPress Plugin Scraper

Scrape WordPress.org plugins via the official API: active installs, ratings, reviews breakdown, versions, compatibility, support stats and tags. Search by keyword, tag or author.

Uses only official/public data endpoints, paces requests to respect the source's rate limits, retries transient errors, removes duplicates and returns clean, flat, consistently typed JSON, CSV or Excel.

Use cases

• Find plugin market gaps and competitors before building a plugin
• Build lead lists of plugin businesses for agencies and SaaS
• Track installs, ratings and update cadence over time
• Audit plugin compatibility with WordPress and PHP versions

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
search	string	Keyword search across plugin names and descriptions.	—
tag	string	Filter by plugin tag slug, e.g. "woocommerce". Cannot be combined with Search.	—
author	string	WordPress.org username of the plugin author.	—
browse	string	Used only when no search/tag/author is given.	"popular"
minActiveInstalls	integer	Only plugins with at least this many active installs.	0
minRating	number	Only plugins with at least this average star rating.	—
updatedSince	string	Only plugins updated on/after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD.	—
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of results to save (and pay for). The run stops as soon as this many unique results are saved.	100

Example input:

{
  "search": "seo",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Output

Each result is one flat record with these fields (missing values are null, lists are []):

Field	Type
slug	string
name	string
url	string
version	string
author	string
authorProfileUrl	string
activeInstalls	integer
rating	number
numRatings	integer
ratings5	integer
ratings4	integer
ratings3	integer
ratings2	integer
ratings1	integer
supportThreads	integer
supportThreadsResolved	integer
downloaded	integer
requiresWp	string
testedWp	string
requiresPhp	string
lastUpdated	string
added	string
tags	array
shortDescription	string
homepage	string
downloadLink	string

Example result:

{
  "slug": "seo-by-rank-math",
  "name": "Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings",
  "url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/",
  "version": "1.0.280",
  "author": "Rank Math SEO",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://profiles.wordpress.org/rankmath/",
  "activeInstalls": 4000000,
  "rating": 4.8,
  "numRatings": 7519,
  "ratings5": 7082,
  "ratings4": 144,
  "ratings3": 53,
  "ratings2": 44,
  "ratings1": 196,
  "supportThreads": 42,
  "supportThreadsResolved": 35,
  "downloaded": 201024556,
  "requiresWp": "6.7",
  "testedWp": "7.1.4",
  "requiresPhp": "7.4",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-06",
  "added": "2018-11-19",
  "tags": [
    "google search console",
    "redirection",
    "schema",
    "seo",
    "xml sitemap"
  ],
  "shortDescription": "Grow your organic traffic and AI visibility with powerful SEO tools, XML sitemaps, Schema automation, and built-in AI SEO, all in one place.",
  "homepage": "https://rankmath.com/",
  "downloadLink": "https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-by-rank-math.1.0.280.zip"
}

The Overview dataset view shows the key columns as a table; export everything as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged one result event for each saved record (suggested $1.00 per 1,000 results), plus nothing for duplicates, failed requests or empty runs. The run stops automatically at your Max results setting or at the maximum total charge you set for the run, whichever comes first.

FAQ

Is this legal / allowed? It reads publicly available data from official public sources and follows their published rate limits. Check the source's terms for your use case.

Why did I get fewer results than Max results? Your filters matched fewer records, or the source caps how many it returns (see Limitations).

What happens on errors? Transient errors (timeouts, rate limits, 5xx) are retried with exponential backoff. Invalid input stops the run immediately with a message explaining what to fix.

Can I schedule it? Yes, use Apify Schedules; duplicates within a run are removed automatically.

Limitations

• The WordPress API supports one of search or tag per query.
• Active installs are rounded buckets published by WordPress.org (e.g. 4,000,000+).
• Results depend on the public source; if it is down, the actor retries with backoff and then fails with a clear message (you are not charged for results that were not saved).