Every time a plugin script is run, regardless of whether it is a channel or application plugin, it will receive a single command-line parameter, the path of a Windows INI file that contains information about what the plugin is being asked to do.

This is a list of the parameters present in this INI file:

[System]

Command=                // Plugin command ("GenerateMainPage" or "ProcessRequest"). 
PluginRequest=          // Plugin request (for "ProcessRequest" commands).
ParamString=            // Plugin request parameters (for "ProcessRequest" commands).
AppServerUrl=           // URL stem for requests to be sent to Awasu.
AppPluginServerUrl=     // URL stem for requests to be sent to a plugin.
UserName=               // Current user's logon name.
UserConfigFile=         // Location of the user's config file.
ChannelConfigFile=      // Location of the channel's config file. This will be set if 
                        //   the plugin is being called to generate a channel's feed.

DownloadUrlFile=        // If the plugin requested Awasu download a file for it (because it has a DownloadUrl
                        //   parameter defined, this will contain the path to the downloaded file. 

ChannelsDir=            // Location of the user's channel config files.
AppPluginsDir=          // Location of the application plugin directory.
VersionString=          // Awasu version string.

[PluginParameters]

... // One entry for each global parameter defined by the plugin in the format name=value.

[ChannelParameters]

... // One entry for each per-channel parameter defined by the plugin in the format name=value.