Plugin API return "false" instead of serialized data

[plugpress]

When querying api.wordpress.org to get some plugins info, there is one case where the expect result is a serialized string but instead, it return false.

An example of how to reproduce the bug is provided in the file.

Please note that...

• $page variable may need to be incremented.
• Commenting line 17 will make the query work.

It seems like the bug is when serializing the data from field "sections".

[nacin]

These APIs were never designed for how you are using them — to scrape out data and use them for your own commercial purposes, to create your own parallel repository or "app store" of other people's work.

Looks like there was an issue with the data of a plugin on that particular page.

[plugpress]

I do not think this is the right place for that kind of comment or debate. If you have a problem (whatever it is) about PlugPress and/or its goal, please email me directly and we can check it out.

For the record, I contacted you (WordPress.org team) to see what could be done but you decided to change the plugins' rules, ban the plugin "permanently", not answer my last email and close the file without letting me explain or adjust.

[nacin]

Storefronts are not accepted for inclusion in the repository. We've been enforcing that guideline for years.