How can I create Google Alert in php - php

Question

I have spend much of time on it, but did not found any working solution ...
I have tried the following code .. but always else case is running "didnt find login form1"
I have tried another coders11 inplemented api but it was also deprecated...
I found many other solutions but not in php ... I am looking for solution in php...
class googleAlerts{
public function createAlert($alert){
$USERNAME = 'XXXXXX#gmail.com';
$PASSWORD = 'YYYYYY';
$COOKIEFILE = 'cookies.txt';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $COOKIEFILE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $COOKIEFILE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 120);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?hl=en&service=alerts&continue=http://www.google.com/alerts/manage');
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$formFields = $this->getFormFields($data);
$formFields['Email'] = $USERNAME;
$formFields['Passwd'] = $PASSWORD;
unset($formFields['PersistentCookie']);
$post_string = '';
foreach($formFields as $key => $value) {
$post_string .= $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
}
$post_string = substr($post_string, 0, -1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (strpos($result, '<title>') === false) {
return false;
} else {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/alerts');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, null);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/alerts/create');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//var_dump($result);
$result = $this->getFormFieldsCreate($result);
$result['q'] = $alert;
$result['t'] = '7';
$result['f'] = '1';
$result['l'] = '0';
$result['e'] = 'feed';
unset($result['PersistentCookie']);
$post_string = '';
foreach($result as $key => $value) {
$post_string .= $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
}
$post_string = substr($post_string, 0, -1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/alerts/manage');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (preg_match_all('%'.$alert.'(?=</a>).*?<a href=[\'"]http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/([^\'"]+)%i', $result, $matches)) {
return ('http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/'.$matches[1][0]);
} else {
return false;
}
}
}
private function getFormFields($data)
{
if (preg_match('/(<form.*?id=.?gaia_loginform.*?<\/form>)/is', $data, $matches)) {
$inputs = $this->getInputs($matches[1]);
return $inputs;
} else {
die('didnt find login form');
}
}
private function getFormFieldsCreate($data)
{
if (preg_match('/(<form.*?name=.?.*?<\/form>)/is', $data, $matches)) {
$inputs = $this->getInputs($matches[1]);
return $inputs;
} else {
die('didnt find login form1');
}
}
private function getInputs($form)
{
$inputs = array();
$elements = preg_match_all('/(<input[^>]+>)/is', $form, $matches);
if ($elements > 0) {
for($i = 0; $i < $elements; $i++) {
$el = preg_replace('/\s{2,}/', ' ', $matches[1][$i]);
if (preg_match('/name=(?:["\'])?([^"\'\s]*)/i', $el, $name)) {
$name = $name[1];
$value = '';
if (preg_match('/value=(?:["\'])?([^"\'\s]*)/i', $el, $value)) {
$value = $value[1];
}
$inputs[$name] = $value;
}
}
}
return $inputs;
}
}
$alert = new googleAlerts;
echo $alert->createAlert('YOUR ALERT');```

Answer 1

You can't login into google alerts with password and email anymore, you would have to pre-create cookies by login into google alerts and copying them out of the dev console and then passing them as argument when doing a curl request. Check out my google alerts api i have written in php. Maybe that helps you out https://github.com/Trivo25/google-alerts-api-php