[theme-reviewers] Getting Theme Download Count

[Towfiq I.]

Dont think so.. there's already an api:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress.org_API




On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we wanted to get and display the download count for one of our themes,
> would it be appropriate to use a plugin like:
>
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-download-count/
>
> The reason I'm concerned is that I'm not aware of any other way to
> retrieve this info, other than the plugin basically using a bot from our
> server to scrape and collect that data.
>
> If that's the case I'd imagine that would be putting undesirable load on
> the wp.org server(s), possibly resulting in a ban.
>
> *@Otto* - I would assume you'd be most informed in answering this?
>
> Thank you.
>
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