Wordpress Plugin Simplified Search

A Node API that provides filtering and sorting for WordPress Plugins.

(or wp-plugin-ss, if you are into the brevity thing)

Why?

Searching for plugins on Wordpress.org can be time consuming since you cannot add filters
to specific fields and there is no such thing as sorting. To minimize these headaches, these features were introduced via wp-plugin-ss for you to use or extend upon.

Dependencies

MongoDb (required)

The WordPress Plugin Simplified Search API returns results directly from MongoDB. A data dump is available in the dump folder.

Redis (optional)

If you would like something more up to date than the data dump, you can run the cron and then run workers to up date your Mongo data.

Installation

You will need to add configurations somehow, and then you can either add this to a project, or it run it locally.

Configurations

Determine the configuration variables and save this to a /path/to/file.

export WP_PLUGIN_SS_MONGODB_URI=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/test
export WP_PLUGIN_SS_REDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:19879
export WP_PLUGIN_SS_REDIS_QUEUE=plugins

You will either need to run the above script (locally) or assign these values in your IDE/cloud service. If not, export configurations to environment locally:

$ chmod 777 /path/to/file # Makes it executable
$ . /path/to/file         # Runs the script above

Add to Project

$ npm install wp-plugin-ss

Run Locally

This is good if you want to do some searches for yourself and test it out (replace the values in braces, likely localhost and 27017 if local).

$ npm install wp-plugin-ss -g    # Installs the API
$ mongorestore --db {mongo db} --host {mongo host} --port {mongo port}  ~/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/wp-plugin-ss/dump/test 
$ . /path/to/file                # Loads the configuration
$ wp-plugin-ss                   # Starts the API

Populate database:

Run this to populate your mongo database with some starting data.

$ mongorestore --db {mongo db} --host {mongo host} --port {mongo port}  ~/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/wp-plugin-ss/dump/test 

Run

Use swagger docs to test at http://127.0.0.1:3000/api-docs/

OR

Go to http://127.0.0.1:3000/plugins and consult the API Usage below

Usage

GET /plugins

Parameters

• search (required) — (string) Search text passed directly to the WordPress Plugin Search. Must be 3 characters.
• author - Filters by author name.
• minRating - (integer) Filter by having at least minRating
• maxRating - (integer) Filter by having at most maxRating
• minReviews - (integer) Filter by having at least minReviews
• maxReviews - (integer) Filter by having at most maxReviews
• minInstalls - (integer) Filter by having at least minInstalls
• maxInstalls - (integer) Filter by having at most maxInstalls
• minVersion - (string) Filter by having at least minVersion
• maxVersion - (string) Filter by having at most maxVersion
• sort — Comma separated list of values. Sorts ascending unless preceeded with minus symbol -

  Recognized values:

  • 'ratings'
  • 'reviews'
  • 'installs'
  • 'authors'
  • 'name'
  • 'version'

Examples:

Get SEO plugins with at least a rating of 4.

http://127.0.0.1:3000/plugins?search=seo&minRatings=4

Get input plugins with at least 1000 installs ordering by name.

http://127.0.0.1:3000/plugins?search=input&minInstalls=1000&sort=name

Get analytics plugins order by the most ratings first (descending)

http://127.0.0.1:3000/plugins?search=analytics&sort=-ratings

Get ajax plugin ordered by most recent version tested and then most installs.

http://127.0.0.1:3000/plugins?search=ajax&sort=-version,-installs