Plupdates (Plugin Updates)

Node and Puppeteer driven tool to check your sites plugins for updates.

This tool will not update your plugins. It will only check for udpates.

Requirements

• Node 8+
• Puppeteer
• An internet connection
  • Currently supported SMTP connections (require OAuth2 configuration):
    • Gmail
• A user in your CMS with access to plugins panel

Currently supported CMS's

• WordPress
• Craft 3

Set Up

• Run npm i to install depencendies
• Rename the following files
  • config.example.json -> config.json
  • emailConfig.example.json -> emailConfig.json
• In config.json add values to the key/value pairs based on the Config Options table below.
• In emailConfig.json add values to the key/value pairs based on the Email Config Options table below.

Config Options

Key	Description	Example
name	Name of the site	"Foo"
type	CMS Type	"WordPress"
loginUrl	Url to login page	"https://foo.com/wp-login.php"
user	CMS user name	"fooAdmin"
password	CMS user password	"hunter2"
pluginsUrl	Url to plugins page	"https://foo.com/wp-admin/plugins.php"
loginButton	CSS selector of submit button on login page	"#wp-submit"
updatesElement	CSS selector of update text row on plugins page	".plugin-update .update-message"
recipient	Who to send the email to	"user@foo.com"

Email Config Options

Key	Description	Example
service	SMTP email service	"gmail"
user	SMTP email user	"bar@foo.com"
clientId	Client ID from SMTP api
clientSecret	Client secret from SMTP api
refreshToken	Refresh token for OAuth2
accessToken	Access token for OAuth2

Running

To run Plupdates simply run node plupdates.js from a terminal in the root directory of the Plupdates project.