I am trying to curl the url https://www.instagram.com/<handle>/media/ to get my profiles data as json. How come when I hit this url in a browser I get the correct response but when I try to curl it using php as follows:
$url = "https://www.instagram.com/<handle>/media/";
$curl_connection = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
$json = curl_exec($curl_connection);
curl_close($curl_connection);
echo $json;
I do get a response:
{"status":"ok","items":[],"more_available":false}
however it is not very useful and not the same as I get when I hit the url in a browser.
This leads me to believe that I am not curling correctly.
Any suggestions?
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I tried file_get_contents($url); which seems to give some users data correctly but for my account it does not. Is there any reason for this?
I'd suggest using file_get_contents instead:
file_get_contents("https://www.instagram.com/derek/media/");
worked perfectly for me!
Hope this helps :-)
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$url = "http://www.reddit.com/r/{mysubreddit}/new.json";
$fields = "sort=new";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($data);
{mysubreddit} is whatever subreddit I wanna check. It works fine to just grab that url via postman, or even in the browser. But when I use PHP/CURL, it returns empty. I've tried replacing the URL, with another URL to another site, and it works fine, so the curl part is working fine.
Is there something with reddit that I have to set? headers? or explicitly tell it for JSON? Or what?
I thought it might have to do with POST, but I tried GET to, still empty/null.
$url = "http://www.reddit.com/r/{mysubreddit}/new.json?sort=new";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
That doesnt work either
You just need to add:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
As others have mentioned, reddit is sending you a 302 redirect to https. You would be able to see that by examining the headers returned by curl_getinfo().
Enabling redirect following, as sorak describes, will work. However, it's not a good solution - you will make two HTTP requests on every single API call. This is a completely unnecessary waste of network and increases the execution time of your script. Instead, just change the url that you're requesting to be from https://www.reddit.com/ in the first place.
So have this laravel get product api that works if i called it from the browser as you can see from this image
here is the curl code chunk that tried to get this json response
$url = 'http://localhost:8000/api/products';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$result = json_decode($data,true);
echo $result;
but i cannot get anything in result, nothing to echo. I have one mockable api in https://demo0546443.mockable.io/products/getAllProducts that produce nearly the same json as my localhost api and it return response as it should have. please help
SOLUTION
So after countless hours researching about this, it seems laravel needs to be accessed on static ip, not on localhost.
It’s recommended to use a library like Guzzle though to make HTTP requests instead though.its very eazy to implement and work with
Rather than echo $result try return response()->json($data).
echo $result return Header application/html while json() return application/json hope this helps.
I am browsing Github info/docs but cant find any simple example on how to
get contents of a raw Github file.
For example if I try to use
$url ="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife/master/index.html";
echo file_get_contents($url);
I get failed to open stream: HTTP...
If I use curl same thing 404 page. So obviously I have to use API but there is just no simple example on how to do it.
Can someone please post plain example.
Thank you!
You can use a different method to escape SSL validation and add more options if you want, with CURL function.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife/master/index.html');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
Works fine for me here, you just need to enable, if was not, the curl extension.
I have following URL
http://www.davesinclairstpeters.com/auto2_inventorylist?i=37647&c=12452&npg=1&ns=50&echo=2
I want to retrieve content of this url using curl but everytime I make this request it is showing me error, as it is not passing required parameters
Below is my code
$ch = curl_init(); // start CURL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $json_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
That page doesn't give any information stating that the information isn't being passed properly. In fact, it tells you that the information has been recieved - by viewing the source, you can see:
<!--
javax.servlet.forward.request_uri = /auto2_inventorylist
...
javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path = /auto2_inventorylist
...
javax.servlet.forward.query_string = i=37647&c=12452&npg=1&ns=50&echo=2
-->
Which tells you the information has infact been recieved.
Therefore, it's no problem with your code, but with the website itself. You should make sure the URL you are using is valid, or contact that website to get more information.
With regards to your code itself - the curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); isn't necessary, as this is already set by default, and you can also pass the URL as an argument of the curl_init function. Doesn't impact performance, but makes for neater code.
$ch = curl_init($json_url); // start CURL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
You code is perfectly fine and if there's something wrong returned, simply paste this URL to your web browser and check the result. In this case website simply failed for some reasons. There's nothing you can do about that as problem is NOT on your side.
This URL yields a page of cars with links to more cars. Looks like the URL you're starting with is old, or has some sort of expiration factor that's not obvious.
Not knowing which sort of filtering parameters you're shooting for.. hard to say what else my be wrong, other than your starting URL be bad.
working url:
http://www.davesinclairlincolnstpeters.com/all-inventory/index.htm?listingConfigId=auto-new%2Cauto-used&compositeType=&year=&make=&start=0&sort=&facetbrowse=true&quick=true&preserveSelectsOnBack=true&searchLinkText=SEARCH&showInvTotals=false&showRadius=false&showReset=true&showSubmit=true&facetbrowseGridUnit=BLANK&showSelections=true&dependencies=model%3Amake%2Ccity%3Aprovince%2Ccity%3Astate&suppressAllConditions=false
Hi I am new to php and want to know some alternate function for the header('location:mysit.php');
I am in a scenario that I am sending the request like this:
header('Location: http://localhost/(some external site).php'&?var='test')
something like this but what I wanna do is that I want to send values of variables to the external site but I actually dont want that page to pop out.
I mean variables should be sent to some external site/page but on screen I want to be redirected to my login page. But seemingly I dont know any alternative please guide me. Thx.
You are searching for PHP cUrl:
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
Set the location header to the place you actually want to redirect the browser to and use something like cURL to make an HTTP request to the remote site.
The way you usually would do that is by sending those parameters by cURL, parse the return values and use them however you need.
By using cURL you can pass POST and GET variables to any URL.
Like so:
$ch = curl_init('http://example.org/?aVariable=theValue');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Now, in $result you have the response from the URL passed to curl_init().
If you need to post data, the code needs a little more:
$ch = curl_init('http://example.org/page_to_post_to.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'variable1=value1&variable2=value2');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Again, the result from your POST reqeust is saved to $result.
You could connect to another URL in the background in numerous ways. There's cURL ( http://php.net/curl - already mentioned here in previous comments ), there's fopen ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php ), there's fsockopen ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php - little more advanced )