Option of Curl return - php

Question

I'm trying to get the URL stream (.m3u8) from here:
https://chch.cdn.clearcable.net/
I tried with cURL:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://chch.cdn.clearcable.net/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$res = curl_exec($ch);
echo $res;
However the URL stream is not present in the code.
Do I need some extra function?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You need to tell curl to return the data instead of output it. If you use this setting:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
The $res should contain the data you expect. I can confirm this works for me. If it's not for you, try this, after thet call to curl_exec:
if($res === false) {
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
echo $res;
}
When running on the web, as you mentioned, you will need to view the source to see any code that is parsed by the browser. Or you can use methods like print_r or var_dump to view it on the page.

Answer 2

You will need to check if its returning any value using print_r() function
Try code below
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://chch.cdn.clearcable.net/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$res = curl_exec($ch);
$post = json_decode($res ,true);
print_r($post);
curl_close($ch);

Answer 3

You can simply use file_get_contents() to stream the entire file into a string. But using it alone will generate an error: SSL operation failed with code 1..
This link describes why.
Try this code:
// Create a stream
$opts = [
"ssl" => [
"verify_peer" => false,
"verify_peer_name" => false
]
];
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents("https://chch.cdn.clearcable.net/", false, $context);
echo $res;