Late answer
A mini plugin as local API
This plugin gives you – after you filled in the slug of your repository – the downloads stats as array. The keys are the dates, the values the downloads.
<?php
/** Plugin Name: (#84254) Plugin stats API */
function wpse84254_get_download_stats()
{
$response = wp_remote_request(
add_query_arg(
'slug'
,'YOUR-REPO-PLUGIN-SLUG'
,'http://wordpress.org/extend/stats/plugin-xml.php'
)
,array( 'sslverify' => false )
);
// Check if response is valid
if ( is_wp_error( $response ) )
return $response->get_error_message();
if (
empty( $response )
OR 200 !== wp_remote_retrieve_response_code( $response )
OR 'OK' !== wp_remote_retrieve_response_message( $response )
)
return _e( 'No Stats available', 'pluginstats_textdomain' );
$response = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response );
$response = (array) simplexml_load_string( $response )->children()->chart_data;
$response = (array) $response['row'];
$dates = (array) array_shift( $response );
$dates = $dates['string'];
// Get rid of unnecessary prepended empty object
array_shift( $dates );
$downloads = (array) array_pop( $response )->number;
if ( count( $dates ) !== count( $downloads ) )
return;
$result = array_combine(
$dates
,$downloads
);
return array_map(
'absint'
,$result
);
}
Usage
To get only the last day + the download number:
$data = array_unshift( wpse84254_get_download_stats );
echo key( $data ).' had '.$data.' Downloads';