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Plugins fetcher
General plugins (Local) ::: local_pluginsfetcher
Maintained by 
Adrian Perez Rodriguez, 
FFHS (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz), 
Sascha Vogel, 
Christoph Karlen
Adrian Perez Rodriguez, Sascha Vogel, This plugin retrieves information about installed plugins.
Latest release:
31 sites
6 downloads
6 fans
Current versions available: 6
Moodle plugins Fetcher Plugin 
This plugin install a new webservice local_pluginsfetcher_get_information which can be use to retrieve information about installed plugins.
Important information:
Please uninstall the actual plugin and reinstall with the newest version. Before the pre-build webservice could be used by default from All users if the user had the moodle/webservice:createtoken capability.Main features
There are two optional parameters which can be combined to fetch only given data:
| key | value | description |
|---|---|---|
| type | string | Only given plugin types will be fetched |
| contribonly | int | Only additional plugins will be fetched |
Installation
- Copy this plugin to the
localdirectory of your Moodle instance:git clone https://github.com/adpe/moodle-local_pluginsfetcher.git local/pluginsfetcher - Visit the notifications page to complete the install process
For more information, visit MoodleDocs for installing contributed modules and plugins.
Configuration
- Enable the pre-built service under Site administration / Server / Web services / External services with click on
Edit - Add the user to be used under
Authorised users - Create a
tokenfor this servicePlugins fetcherand user under Site administration / Server / Web services / Manage tokens. It's important that the user has the capabilitymoodle/site:config.
Usage
Use e.g. Postman, CURL or simply a Browser to call https://[yourmoodle]/webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken=[yourtoken]&wsfunction=local_pluginsfetcher_get_information&moodlewsrestformat=json and get a json list of your plugins.
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Contributors
Adrian Perez Rodriguez (Lead maintainer)
FFHS (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz)
Sascha Vogel
Christoph Karlen
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You should see a new web service "local_pluginsfetcher_get_information" under https://[yourmoodle]/admin/webservice/documentation.php.
You can use e.g. Postman, CURL or simply a Browser to call https://[yourmoodle]/webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken=[yourtoken]&wsfunction=local_pluginsfetcher_get_information&moodlewsrestformat=json and get a json list of your plugins.
We use that for get an overview of plugins and versions on all our moodle platforms.