diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md
index c79fd3a55df9..4bb2b6e4f255 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/vim.section.md
@@ -264,10 +264,15 @@ nix-shell -p vimPluginsUpdater --run 'vim-plugins-updater --github-token=mytoken
 Alternatively, set the number of processes to a lower count to avoid rate-limiting.
 
 ```sh
-
 nix-shell -p vimPluginsUpdater --run 'vim-plugins-updater --proc 1'
 ```
 
+If you want to update only certain plugins, you can specify them after the `update` command. Note that you must use the same plugin names as the `pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/vim-plugin-names` file.
+
+```sh
+nix-shell -p vimPluginsUpdater --run 'vim-plugins-updater update "nvim-treesitter" "LazyVim"'
+```
+
 ## How to maintain an out-of-tree overlay of vim plugins ? {#vim-out-of-tree-overlays}
 
 You can use the updater script to generate basic packages out of a custom vim
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/pluginupdate-py/pluginupdate.py b/maintainers/scripts/pluginupdate-py/pluginupdate.py
index e37e82fef3e7..168c727480c1 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/pluginupdate-py/pluginupdate.py
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/pluginupdate-py/pluginupdate.py
@@ -388,6 +388,19 @@ class Editor:
                 fetch_config, args.input_file, editor.deprecated, append=append
             )
             plugin, _ = prefetch_plugin(pdesc)
+
+            if (  # lua updater doesn't support updating individual plugin
+                self.name != "lua"
+            ):
+                # update generated.nix
+                update = self.get_update(
+                    args.input_file,
+                    args.outfile,
+                    fetch_config,
+                    [plugin.normalized_name],
+                )
+                update()
+
             autocommit = not args.no_commit
             if autocommit:
                 commit(
@@ -404,13 +417,32 @@ class Editor:
         """CSV spec"""
         print("the update member function should be overridden in subclasses")
 
-    def get_current_plugins(self, nixpkgs: str) -> List[Plugin]:
+    def get_current_plugins(
+        self, config: FetchConfig, nixpkgs: str
+    ) -> List[Tuple[PluginDesc, Plugin]]:
         """To fill the cache"""
         data = run_nix_expr(self.get_plugins, nixpkgs)
         plugins = []
         for name, attr in data.items():
-            p = Plugin(name, attr["rev"], attr["submodules"], attr["sha256"])
-            plugins.append(p)
+            checksum = attr["checksum"]
+
+            # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/8a335419/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/build-neovim-plugin.nix#L36
+            # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/344478#discussion_r1786646055
+            version = re.search(r"\d\d\d\d-\d\d?-\d\d?", attr["version"])
+            if version is None:
+                raise ValueError(f"Cannot parse version: {attr['version']}")
+            date = datetime.strptime(version.group(), "%Y-%m-%d")
+
+            pdesc = PluginDesc.load_from_string(config, f'{attr["homePage"]} as {name}')
+            p = Plugin(
+                attr["pname"],
+                checksum["rev"],
+                checksum["submodules"],
+                checksum["sha256"],
+                date,
+            )
+
+            plugins.append((pdesc, p))
         return plugins
 
     def load_plugin_spec(self, config: FetchConfig, plugin_file) -> List[PluginDesc]:
@@ -421,28 +453,117 @@ class Editor:
         """Returns nothing for now, writes directly to outfile"""
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
-    def get_update(self, input_file: str, outfile: str, config: FetchConfig):
-        cache: Cache = Cache(self.get_current_plugins(self.nixpkgs), self.cache_file)
+    def filter_plugins_to_update(
+        self, plugin: PluginDesc, to_update: List[str]
+    ) -> bool:
+        """Function for filtering out plugins, that user doesn't want to update.
+
+        It is mainly used for updating only specific plugins, not all of them.
+        By default it filters out plugins not present in `to_update`,
+        assuming `to_update` is a list of plugin names (the same as in the
+        result expression).
+
+        This function is never called if `to_update` is empty.
+        Feel free to override this function in derived classes.
+
+        Note:
+            Known bug: you have to use a deprecated name, instead of new one.
+            This is because we resolve deprecations later and can't get new
+            plugin URL before we request info about it.
+
+            Although, we could parse deprecated.json, but it's a whole bunch
+            of spaghetti code, which I don't want to write.
+
+        Arguments:
+            plugin: Plugin on which you decide whether to ignore or not.
+            to_update:
+                List of strings passed to via the `--update` command line parameter.
+                By default, we assume it is a list of URIs identical to what
+                is in the input file.
+
+        Returns:
+            True if we should update plugin and False if not.
+        """
+        return plugin.name.replace(".", "-") in to_update
+
+    def get_update(
+        self,
+        input_file: str,
+        output_file: str,
+        config: FetchConfig,
+        to_update: Optional[List[str]],
+    ):
+        if to_update is None:
+            to_update = []
+
+        current_plugins = self.get_current_plugins(config, self.nixpkgs)
+        current_plugin_specs = self.load_plugin_spec(config, input_file)
+
+        cache: Cache = Cache(
+            [plugin for _description, plugin in current_plugins], self.cache_file
+        )
         _prefetch = functools.partial(prefetch, cache=cache)
 
-        def update() -> dict:
-            plugins = self.load_plugin_spec(config, input_file)
+        plugins_to_update = (
+            current_plugin_specs
+            if len(to_update) == 0
+            else [
+                description
+                for description in current_plugin_specs
+                if self.filter_plugins_to_update(description, to_update)
+            ]
+        )
+
+        def update() -> Redirects:
+            if len(plugins_to_update) == 0:
+                log.error(
+                    "\n\n\n\nIt seems like you provided some arguments to `--update`:\n"
+                    + ", ".join(to_update)
+                    + "\nBut after filtering, the result list of plugins is empty\n"
+                    "\n"
+                    "Are you sure you provided the same URIs as in your input file?\n"
+                    "(" + str(input_file) + ")\n\n"
+                )
+                return {}
 
             try:
                 pool = Pool(processes=config.proc)
-                results = pool.map(_prefetch, plugins)
+                results = pool.map(_prefetch, plugins_to_update)
             finally:
                 cache.store()
 
+            print(f"{len(results)} of {len(current_plugins)} were checked")
+            # Do only partial update of out file
+            if len(results) != len(current_plugins):
+                results = self.merge_results(current_plugins, results)
             plugins, redirects = check_results(results)
 
             plugins = sorted(plugins, key=lambda v: v[1].normalized_name)
-            self.generate_nix(plugins, outfile)
+            self.generate_nix(plugins, output_file)
 
             return redirects
 
         return update
 
+    def merge_results(
+        self,
+        current: list[Tuple[PluginDesc, Plugin]],
+        fetched: List[Tuple[PluginDesc, Union[Exception, Plugin], Optional[Repo]]],
+    ) -> List[Tuple[PluginDesc, Union[Exception, Plugin], Optional[Repo]]]:
+        # transforming this to dict, so lookup is O(1) instead of O(n) (n is len(current))
+        result: Dict[
+            str, Tuple[PluginDesc, Union[Exception, Plugin], Optional[Repo]]
+        ] = {
+            # also adding redirect (third item in the result tuple)
+            pl.normalized_name: (pdesc, pl, None)
+            for pdesc, pl in current
+        }
+
+        for plugin_desc, plugin, redirect in fetched:
+            result[plugin.normalized_name] = (plugin_desc, plugin, redirect)
+
+        return list(result.values())
+
     @property
     def attr_path(self):
         return self.name + "Plugins"
@@ -544,6 +665,12 @@ class Editor:
             description="Update all or a subset of existing plugins",
             add_help=False,
         )
+        pupdate.add_argument(
+            "update_only",
+            default=None,
+            nargs="*",
+            help="Plugin URLs to update (must be the same as in the input file)",
+        )
         pupdate.set_defaults(func=self.update)
         return main
 
@@ -637,11 +764,10 @@ def check_results(
                 new_pdesc = PluginDesc(redirect, pdesc.branch, pdesc.alias)
             plugins.append((new_pdesc, result))
 
-    print(f"{len(results) - len(failures)} plugins were checked", end="")
     if len(failures) == 0:
         return plugins, redirects
     else:
-        log.error(f", {len(failures)} plugin(s) could not be downloaded:\n")
+        log.error(f"{len(failures)} plugin(s) could not be downloaded:\n")
 
         for plugin, exception in failures:
             print_download_error(plugin, exception)
@@ -802,7 +928,14 @@ def update_plugins(editor: Editor, args):
         )
 
     fetch_config = FetchConfig(args.proc, args.github_token)
-    update = editor.get_update(args.input_file, args.outfile, fetch_config)
+    update = editor.get_update(
+        input_file=args.input_file,
+        output_file=args.outfile,
+        config=fetch_config,
+        to_update=getattr(  # if script was called without arguments
+            args, "update_only", None
+        ),
+    )
 
     start_time = time.time()
     redirects = update()
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/plugins/update.py b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/plugins/update.py
index 333c96807dd4..47c960e9ae24 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/plugins/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/plugins/update.py
@@ -21,13 +21,11 @@ sys.path.insert(
 )
 import pluginupdate
 
-GET_PLUGINS = f"""(
-with import <localpkgs> {{ }};
+GET_PLUGINS = f"""with import <localpkgs> {{ }};
 let
   inherit (kakouneUtils.override {{ }}) buildKakounePluginFrom2Nix;
-  generated = callPackage {ROOT}/generated.nix {{
-    inherit buildKakounePluginFrom2Nix;
-  }};
+  generated = callPackage {ROOT}/generated.nix {{ inherit buildKakounePluginFrom2Nix; }};
+
   hasChecksum =
     value:
     lib.isAttrs value
@@ -35,24 +33,28 @@ let
       "src"
       "outputHash"
     ] value;
-  getChecksum =
-    name: value:
-    if hasChecksum value then
-      {{
-        submodules = value.src.fetchSubmodules or false;
-        sha256 = value.src.outputHash;
-        rev = value.src.rev;
-      }}
-    else
-      null;
-  checksums = lib.mapAttrs getChecksum generated;
+
+  parse = name: value: {{
+    pname = value.pname;
+    version = value.version;
+    homePage = value.meta.homepage;
+    checksum =
+      if hasChecksum value then
+        {{
+          submodules = value.src.fetchSubmodules or false;
+          sha256 = value.src.outputHash;
+          rev = value.src.rev;
+        }}
+      else
+        null;
+  }};
 in
-lib.filterAttrs (n: v: v != null) checksums
-)"""
+lib.mapAttrs parse generated"""
 
 HEADER = "# This file has been @generated by ./pkgs/applications/editors/kakoune/plugins/update.py. Do not edit!"
 
 
+
 class KakouneEditor(pluginupdate.Editor):
     def generate_nix(
         self,
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/get-plugins.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/get-plugins.nix
index 6c587a94821f..c32f3880d6f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/get-plugins.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/get-plugins.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ let
   generated = callPackage <localpkgs/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/generated.nix> {
     inherit buildNeovimPlugin buildVimPlugin;
   } { } { };
+
   hasChecksum =
     value:
     lib.isAttrs value
@@ -13,16 +14,20 @@ let
       "src"
       "outputHash"
     ] value;
-  getChecksum =
-    name: value:
-    if hasChecksum value then
-      {
-        submodules = value.src.fetchSubmodules or false;
-        sha256 = value.src.outputHash;
-        rev = value.src.rev;
-      }
-    else
-      null;
-  checksums = lib.mapAttrs getChecksum generated;
+
+  parse = name: value: {
+    pname = value.pname;
+    version = value.version;
+    homePage = value.meta.homepage;
+    checksum =
+      if hasChecksum value then
+        {
+          submodules = value.src.fetchSubmodules or false;
+          sha256 = value.src.outputHash;
+          rev = value.src.rev;
+        }
+      else
+        null;
+  };
 in
-lib.filterAttrs (n: v: v != null) checksums
+lib.mapAttrs parse generated
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py b/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py
index 2471e46f5f42..2f4b2493ebed 100755
--- a/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ from pluginupdate import FetchConfig, update_plugins
 log = logging.getLogger()
 log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
 
-ROOT = Path(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())))).parent.parent  # type: ignore
+ROOT = Path(
+    os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())))
+).parent.parent  # type: ignore
 
 PKG_LIST = "maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv"
 TMP_FILE = "$(mktemp)"
@@ -121,7 +123,18 @@ class LuaEditor(pluginupdate.Editor):
     def attr_path(self):
         return "luaPackages"
 
-    def get_update(self, input_file: str, outfile: str, config: FetchConfig):
+    def get_update(
+        self,
+        input_file: str,
+        outfile: str,
+        config: FetchConfig,
+        # TODO: implement support for adding/updating individual plugins
+        to_update: Optional[List[str]],
+    ):
+        if to_update is not None:
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "For now, lua updater doesn't support updating individual packages."
+            )
         _prefetch = generate_pkg_nix
 
         def update() -> dict: