WP Scraper

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

11 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 8 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 78% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 12 months ago; the previous band took 19 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ ste_yeu

   2.9y ago

   It works very well, easy to use, perfect!

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2. ★★★★★ deepee

   5.3y ago

   This is one of my favourite plugins, it saves me hours of work where I normally migrate pages the old cut and paste way. This is a massive time saver. Not sure why some have said it doesn’t work, it does and I have scraped hundreds of pages.

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3. ★★★★★ Saugata Roy

   5.8y ago

   This is a great plugin and it helped me in solving a few complicated problems in a client’s website. I, however, had to make a few minor adjustments to suit our purpose. One change that I had to do was add a redirect to the post edit page after saving the scraped content in single scrape mode. It’ll be great if the author considers this as a feature request. Thanks.

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4. ★★★★★ MrsJessicaSimpson

   6.0y ago

   This isn’t a bad plugin – per-say! (you don’t say?) I cannot give it a full 5 star review, but it does derive (it), especially for what it tries to achieve. In use, in your admin backend on the purpose build scrape screen, you select the target web-page to (scrap), grab the title, grab the content: then save, but you can only save it as a (Post) – Not a (Page!) Which then necessitates converting it, but at least the image links get dragged over and saved properly. The advert at the bottom isn’t welcome, which then necessitates yet more editing. Now, I’m moving hosts and sites soon, and I am looking at dragging over only half of my content. Cloning is gonna be hard work, this could do it, but the Post -> Page means that it’s a pain. This feature is no doubt in the Pro version, but I don’t know. As I say, this Plugin ain’t half bad, but fiddly to use: especially if you’ve got a hundred or so Pages to go through. If you’ve got the time, then fire it up. Hope it helps.

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5. ★★★★★ andres4zv

   6.5y ago

   ¡Gracias! MUCHÍSIMAS GRACIAS! Me ha ahorrado un 90% de mi tiempo a la hora de crear post. Thanks very much.

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6. ★★★★★ mcsvideow

   6.8y ago

   I recently had an issue with the Live Scraper not functioning on one of my sites. I wrote to the plugin owner, and almost immediately, I received a reply from Robert, one of the partners. He was extremely courteous and he followed through with several emails back and forth, all within a short period of time. This challenging issue was resolved very quickly, and now, I have happy clients. I have used the WP Live Scraper plugin for several months now, and found it to be extremely easy to use with no issues other than the one I described above which turned out to be nothing more than CSS code. Hi Praises!

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7. ★★★★★ bazilio07

   6.9y ago

   amasing plugin This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by bazilio07.

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8. ★★★★★ bajiodunamis

   7.4y ago

   In Single Scrape, Categories and Tags Shows, but custom taxonomies dont show

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.0 Initial version of this plugin. 1.0
2. — Version 2.0 Added additional fields to the single scraper Added a limited version of the multiple scraper which is available in the WP Scraper Pro version. 2.0
3. — Version 2.4 Various bug fixes Added the Only Text and Images option for simplified scraping use. 2.4
4. — Version 3.0 Edited visual interface and various bug fixes. 3.0
5. — Version 4.0 Redesigned selector interface, and corrected issue with shared hosting servers. 4.0
6. — Version 4.1 Tested and updated for WordPress 4.6 release 4.1

All 3 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (5.8.2). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.8 WP Scraper <= 5.8.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery ↗
   2025-10-10 CVE-2025-9975 Server-Side Request Forgery Affects <= 5.8.1 Patched in 5.8.2
2. Patched Medium · 6.4 WP Scraper <= 5.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery ↗
   2024-06-20 CVE-2024-37208 Server-Side Request Forgery Affects <= 5.8 Patched in 5.8.1
3. Patched Medium · 4.3 WP Scraper <= 5.7 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Page/Post Creation ↗
   2024-05-21 CVE-2024-3663 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.7 Patched in 5.8

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-11-18 3K+ → 2K+ down after 579 days in tier
2. 2024-04-18 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1001 days in tier
3. 2021-07-22 5K+ → 4K+ down after 133 days in tier
4. 2021-03-11 4K+ → 5K+ up after 259 days in tier
5. 2020-06-25 3K+ → 4K+ up after 202 days in tier
6. 2019-12-06 2K+ → 3K+ up after 704 days in tier
7. 2018-01-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 409 days in tier
8. 2016-11-18 50+ → 1K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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WP Scraper: 2K+ active installs, 4.5★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-scraper