Programming

Forgive me if this is a rather stupid but I am writing some code using Python for a project at work and was wondering if there was a way to download the entire "Popular" plugins directory in a single shot? I currently have to to look at 34 pages:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/2
...

and parse data that way but is really inefficient. I see that I can check stuff out via svn

https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/svn/

and I can see all the plugins as a whole via:

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

But is there a better way that I can accomplish my goal?

Thank you in advance!

---------- Post updated 10-08-15 at 10:03 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-07-15 at 03:44 PM ----------

I guess I should clarify what I am asking. I have already written my python code to scrape what I need from the plugins sites and works great but at my job they think that its inefficient to send many HTTP GET requests to the site and would prefer that I obtain all the plugin information another way, then simply searching through the results, parse the data that I need. So I can download all the plugins via SVN:

svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

but I would prefer to just download plugins that are considered popular like what you see from the url:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/

Can I do an svn check of just the popular directory? Ex.

svn co https://popular.plugins.svn.wordpress.org

I know the about url doesnt exist but if it does what is it?

Thank you in advance!