Title: get plugins version from outside a WP instance
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# get plugins version from outside a WP instance

 *  Resolved [quenenni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quenenni/)
 * (@quenenni)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-plugins-version-from-outside-a-wp-instance/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m hosting lots of wordpress with different versions and of course, tons of 
   plugins / themes (lots of different version too).
 * We’re trying to implement scripts to get all WP versions and plugins / themes
   versions in order to detect the ones that are not up-to-dated.
 * I already tried the excellent wpsan tool ([https://github.com/wpscanteam](https://github.com/wpscanteam)),
   but unfortunately, it only work with an url and not within the system (with a
   internal path as param) and that’s just not possible with all the WP we have.
 * I already built a script to have all the WP versions and another one to have 
   all the plugins versions and they work nice and quick.
 * Now, I would like to know the last version of each plugin we are using to be 
   able to compare with the one we have. I checked the plugin API but couldn’t make
   it work.
    All my attemps gave me the answer: `O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:5:"error";s:
   22:"Action not implemented";}`
 * As far as I understand, we have to use it from inside a WP.
 * Does anyone know if it possible to call the API from an external script (outside
   a WP instance).
    I using Python, but if it’s only possible with PHP, I can manage
   that.
 * My search on the net returned nothing.
    Maybe someone knows where I can find 
   an example on how to do it.
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [quenenni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quenenni/)
 * (@quenenni)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-plugins-version-from-outside-a-wp-instance/#post-6186835)
 * Yeepee.. I found the solution.
    (the problem is always to find the right words
   to use in the search)
 * [wordpress-plugin-api-latest-download](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6095574/wordpress-plugin-api-latest-download)
   
   It’s in Php, but that’s much much better than nothing. I’ll try to make it work
   with Python.
 *  Thread Starter [quenenni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quenenni/)
 * (@quenenni)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-plugins-version-from-outside-a-wp-instance/#post-6186870)
 * In case someone else want to do the same, here is a easy way to achieve that (
   in Python):
 * This example is for the plugin akismet.
    You just have to change the name at 
   the end of the url var to match the plugin you want.
 * Also, you can get different format from the server.
    You just have to change 
   the extension (.json / .xml / .php)
 *     ```
       #! /usr/bin/env python
   
       from urllib2 import urlopen
       import json
   
       url = 'https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/akismet.json'
       response = urlopen(url).read()
   
       try:
           json_response = json.loads(response)
   
       # This to print everything
       #    print json.dumps(json_response, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
   
           print "Version: ", json_response['version']
           print "requires: ", json_response['requires']
           print "tested: ", json_response['tested']
           print "last_updated: ", json_response['last_updated']
   
       except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
           print "error"
       ```
   

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