Install plugins from the Moodle plugins directory

[geoffreyvanwyk]

Moodle Plugins Directory: https://moodle.org/plugins

To obtain the download link for the zip archive of a plugin, one has to manually copy it from the directory. The directory's API only provides endpoints for a developer's own plugins.

The only option appears to be to scrape the directory and to build up a separate database and API that can be queried by this role.

• Create web scraper to collect download links for plugins
• Create Laravel API app for serving the links

The plugins directory makes it impossible to get the download link by web scraping. The link under the "Download" button is set with JavaScript afterwhich any trace of the data is removed. Scraping with a JavaScript-aware middleware runs into the bot-challenge page.