I had tried to use the example code here to fetch a long list of plugins, with only certain fields. However, the filter doesn’t work as expected. According to documentation:
“fields – an array with possible fields (listed below) as keys and
true or false value to return data for that field or not. The fields
that are included make up the properties of the returned object above.
The possible fields are (default set to true, unless otherwise
stated):”
The listed fields don’t seem to work, with array values set, un-set, true, or false. It appears the API may have changed, without updated documentation? Is there any more detailed documentation, preferably one that shows how to query for multiple slugs/names/etc.?
The API is a bit limited, but there’s one useful feature I noticed:
http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/nextgen-gallery will give php-variable of the data about nextgen gallery. Similarly, http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/nextgen-gallery.json gives it in JSON format, and http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/nextgen-gallery.xml gives xml format.