How do I retrieve a list of popular plugins using the WordPress.org Plugin API?

I was wrong in the earlier version of the answer and 1.1 version of the API does support this via GET request.

The basic request would be: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.1/?action=query_plugins&request[browse]=popular

And you can add more parameters by sticking with request passed as “array” (in GET interpretation of).

See the [poor] documentation in Codex and links from there for more detail.

For in–PHP way, independent of WP core I made a WPorg Client library which implements this, among other things.

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