WordPress.org Plugin Reviews & Plugin Intel Scraper

Extract every review of any WordPress.org plugin – star rating, title, full text, reviewer, ISO date and developer replies – plus the plugin's official directory intel: active installs, 5→1 rating breakdown, version, tested-up-to, author, tags, support thread stats and download link.

Filter by star rating (WordPress.org's own ?filter=), by reviews since date, or switch on "only new reviews" and schedule it daily for competitor / own-plugin review alerts.

No login, no browser, no cookies – plugin details come from the official api.wordpress.org JSON API; reviews come from the public support forum HTML. Stable, polite and cheap.

Why this Actor

Capability	This Actor	Typical WP scrapers
Official plugin API intel (installs, rating histogram, tested-up-to)	✅	Often HTML-only or missing
Full review text + developer replies	✅	RSS-only often truncates / skips replies
Star filter via WordPress.org's own filter	✅	Rare
reviewsSince + onlyNewReviews monitoring	✅	Rare
Search discovery (seo, backup…)	✅	Sometimes
Pay-per-event (review + plugin) — no double dataset-item fee	✅	Often $4/1k flat

What can I use it for?

• Plugin developers – monitor your own reviews and reply faster; catch 1★ spikes after a release.
• Competitor research – mine 1–2★ reviews of category leaders to find bugs and feature gaps.
• Agencies & freelancers – compare active installs, ratings and support resolution rates before recommending a plugin.
• Market analysts – track install counts and rating velocity across a niche.
• AI agents & LLM pipelines – dated, labelled review text for sentiment / RAG.

Input example

{
  "plugins": ["https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/", "woocommerce"],
  "searchQueries": ["seo"],
  "maxPluginsPerSearch": 5,
  "maxReviewsPerPlugin": 50,
  "ratings": ["1", "2"],
  "reviewsSince": "2026-01-01",
  "onlyNewReviews": false,
  "fetchReviewBodies": true
}

The default input (Contact Form 7 + WooCommerce, 30 newest reviews each with bodies) finishes well under a minute and always produces a non-empty dataset – safe for Apify's daily auto-test.

Output

Two item types in one dataset (use the Reviews and Plugins views, or filter by type).

Review

{
  "type": "review",
  "pluginSlug": "contact-form-7",
  "pluginName": "Contact Form 7",
  "reviewId": "used-to-be-the-best-5",
  "reviewUrl": "https://wordpress.org/support/topic/used-to-be-the-best-5/",
  "title": "Used to be the best",
  "rating": 1,
  "date": "2026-10-30",
  "reviewerName": "jbligh",
  "text": "This suddenly does not work with my version of PHP…",
  "replies": 0,
  "hasReply": false
}

Plugin

{
  "type": "plugin",
  "slug": "woocommerce",
  "name": "WooCommerce",
  "author": "Automattic",
  "activeInstalls": 7000000,
  "rating": 4.5,
  "numRatings": 4833,
  "ratingDistribution": {"5": 4005, "4": 197, "3": 113, "2": 108, "1": 410},
  "version": "11.2.2",
  "tested": "6.8.3",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-11-04 2:12pm GMT",
  "tags": ["e-commerce", "shop"],
  "scrapedReviewStats": {"reviewsScraped": 20, "avgRating": 3.1, "negativeShare": 0.4, "replyRate": 0.15}
}

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Review saved	$0.80 per 1,000 reviews
Plugin details saved	$2.00 per 1,000 plugins

No start fee beyond Apify's tiny platform start event. Do not enable a generic dataset-item event – that would double-charge next to review / plugin. Errors, not-found plugins and already-seen reviews (monitoring mode) are free.

Tips

• Complaint mining: ratings: ["1","2"].
• Fast title-only monitoring: fetchReviewBodies: false + onlyNewReviews: true.
• Discovery: searchQueries: ["seo","backup"] uses the official plugin search API.
• Requests are paced politely with retries on 403/429/5xx. Enable a proxy only for very large jobs.

Is it legal?

This Actor only collects what WordPress.org shows publicly (plugin directory API + public support-forum reviews), without logging in. Reviewer display names are personal data under laws such as GDPR / CCPA; drop reviewerName if you do not need it. Respect WordPress.org's terms. This is general information, not legal advice.