Google Hotel Finder, file_get_contents PHP - php

Question

I try to check if a hotel is available through the Google Hotel Finder. I use the following PHP code:
<?php
//get date, in the future with $_POST
//get source
$source = file_get_contents('https://www.google.co.uk/hotelfinder/#search;l=london;d=2015-08-14;n=1;usd=1;h=17709217511794056234;si=;av=d');
//"Book a room" only shows when room(s) are available
if (strpos($source, "Book a room") !== false) {
echo "Room(s) available";
} else {
echo "Nothing available";
}
echo $source;
?>
When I run this code in my server, Google Hotel Finder gives me the following error message: "Google Hotel Finder has not been optimised for your browser. For best results, please try Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, Internet Explorer 8+, Safari 4+".
So Google detected that I was visiting the page trough PHP... Is there an way to ignore or bypass this "block"?

Answer 1

You may try to send user agent info with header.
$options = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" .
"Cookie: foo=bar\r\n" . // check function.stream-context-create on php.net
"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.102011-10-16 20:23:10\r\n" // i.e. An iPad
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$file = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
PHP file_get_contents() and headers