WP-Plugins Downloader

wp-plugins.py

A quick & dirty python3 script to scrape links to all wordpress plugins hosted at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ . It saves the data into the file plugins.txt with the following format: NAME||URL||INSTALLCOUNT

wp-download.py

A quick & dirty python3 script which reads URLs to wordpress plugins from the file urls.txt (one per line) and download and extracts the plugin into the downloaded/ folder.

Data

Attached is a list of plugins in plugins.txt.example (contains duplicates). urls.txt.example contains the unique URLs to all plugins from plugins.txt.example. popular.txt.example contains a list of the most popular plugins.

Requirements

• python3
• requests module (pip install requets)

Usage

• python3 wp-plugins.py
• cat plugins.txt | sort | uniq | cut -d"|" -f 3 > urls.txt
• python3 wp-download.py

Some notes

I can't say this often enough: It's simple, quick & really dirty. Multithreading network code would be nice-to-have, but I don't plan to work on this code in the near future anymore.