The API Fectcher plugin manages scheduled REST API get calls.
| Author: | Wessel Hampsink (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 5.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.7.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 20-04-2021 |
| Last updated: | 20-04-2021
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | https://www.wesselhampsink.nl/api-fetcher-plu... |
| Total downloads: | 487 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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This API Fetcher plugin can perform scheduled API requests and store the results in posts and meta fields. Ideal for developers that want to practice with API data.
Example usage:
- Collect hourly or daily stock market information via a REST API and save the data in posts.
- Collect news from your favourite topic from a news REST API and give your visitors hourly updated news articles.
Privacy notices
With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:
- track users by stealth;
- write any user personal data to the database;
- send any data to external servers (with the exception of the API Post requests itself);
- use cookies.
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