Secure-OCF-Web-Hosting/scripts/metrics/README.md

WordPress Metrics

scrape_wordpress_plugins.py

• Uses requests to scrape the whole plugins list using https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/
• Scrape in pages of 100 plugins, takes about ~30 mins to complete
• Stores as output.json

analyze_data.py

• Calculate basic statistics (percentiles, mean, median, sd ...)
• Visualize them with matplot in a logrithrimic scale

query_plugin.py

• Change slug to equal the target plugins (should be able to directly plug the outputs from detect_plugins.sh)
• TODO: Implement warning system

security_rating.py

• Implements some sort of basic rating system factoring in number of active installations, last-update date, and ratings
• sample use case: python3 security_rating.py {plugin name}