[wp-hackers] Wordpress Plugin API

[Mike Schinkel]

Hey Dion,

When you visit the API URL[1] in your browser is has a link for API Docs which when clicked says "If only I had written some.. Sorry! -DD32"

Since it appears you have since written some docs[2], any chance of linking those to ease the journey for future API travelers?

-Mike 
[1] http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/ 
[2] http://dd32.id.au/projects/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs/

On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> The fields arguement is not designed to be used to turn all of the
> fields on and off, It's a incredibly simple API thats only designed
> for core's usage of it.
> Only certain fields can be turned on/off by that argument, as
> mentioned in the documentation links you've mentioned, although
> they're somewhat out of date now as extra things have been added to
> the API.
> 
> Adding 'compatibility' => false, 'short_description' => false, to the
> list will also reduce the payload of the data you're requesting
> significantly. I also notice you're sending a lot of fieldnames which
> are not for the Plugin API (But appear to be for the Themes API) so
> that's not helping either..
> 
> In short.. Yes, The API is working as expected, Remove a bunch of
> those field requirements from your call and you'll get back even more
> data than you are currently getting.. but there isn't an option to
> just get a list of slugs.
> 
> On 30 November 2012 10:59, Luke Bryan <lukebryan at sharefaith.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I'm having some trouble using the api as described here:
>> http://dd32.id.au/projects/wordpressorg-plugin-information-api-docs/
>> http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-coding/interacting-with-wordpress-plug-in-theme-api/
>> 
>> I'm using:
>>    $browseargs = array(
>>        'search' => $args->search,
>>        'fields' => array(
>>            'version'=>false,
>>            'author'=>false,
>>            'preview_url'=>FALSE,
>>            'screenshot_url'=>FALSE,
>>            'screenshot_count'=>FALSE,
>>            'screenshots'=>FALSE,
>>            'rating'=>FALSE,
>>            'num_ratings'=>FALSE,
>>            'downloaded'=>FALSE,
>>            'sections'=>FALSE,
>>            'description'=>FALSE,
>>            'download_link'=>FALSE,
>>            'slug'   => TRUE         )
>>    );
>> 
>>    $request = wp_remote_post('http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/',
>> array( 'timeout' => 15, 'body' => array('action' => $action, 'request' =>
>> serialize((object)$browseargs))));
>> ... and requesting it as described in the link above.
>> 
>> I'm trying to just get the slug for plugins, and while I've been able to
>> expand search to return many, many plugins, the fields parameter isn't
>> doing what it says it does on the documentation. It always sends back the
>> full name, slug, version... in a slower long response. I'm wondering, has
>> this parameter been renamed?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Luke
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