Link to Download Latest WordPress PLUGIN Version

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I use the following code in my PHP script to automatically download the latest version of WordPress…

$wordpress_zip_file_url="https://wordpress.org/latest.zip";
file_put_contents("wordpress.zip", file_get_contents($wordpress_zip_file_url));

Does this work for plugins the same way? For example, I’d like to automatically download the latest backupwordpress plugin version –> https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/

Is there a generic link to download the latest version of a plugin?

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https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/{plugin-name}.latest-stable.zip

The structure should be the same for all WordPress.org plugins and the link you’re looking for is:

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/backupwordpress.latest-stable.zip.

You can see an example here on how this might be used.

To update plugins through WP-CLI:

wp plugin update backupwordpress

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