I have a script that grabs the duration of a Youtube video.
It was working fine but for some reason it now gets the following error:
Warning:
file_get_contents(https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails&id=Prt-G4cPIn4&key=[API_KEY]):
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Here's the code:
$dur = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails&id=$video_id&key=$apikey");
$duration = json_decode($dur, true);
foreach ($duration['items'] as $vidTime) {
$vTime = new DateInterval($vidTime['contentDetails']['duration']);
}
$vid_time = $vTime->format('%H:%I:%S');
I have no idea why this would stop working all of a sudden.
The var $apikey is wrong "[API_KEY]", solve this first and go appear other error, comming by the headers and CORS
I have a problem with my website. My website gets a variable and returns a String. What I mean by that is that if you visit my website the code will me only a 3 digit String eg FEG, PSJ, FGT, HJK. I want to take this String using the file_get_contents function. But when I do $con = file_get_contents("http://website.com/test.php?name=George"); it gives me this error
Warning: file_get_contents("http://website.com/test.php?name=George"): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in C:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 2
Example using cURL instead:
<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://website.com/test.php?name=George");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
?>
I am using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to get a data from a website. I call this following function in a while loop say for example 15 actors data to be scraped. what happens is after scraping data for 5 or 6 or somewhere in loop, it fails to open the stream and breaks the script. I used try and catch function. but still i am not to fix it out. Actually my need is even if it fails in the middle of a loop, it has to go on till the end. Can anyone assit me pls.
function get_data($actor) {
try {
$html = file_get_html('http://someurl.com', false, $context);
if (isset($html)) {
$table1 =$html->find('table.table_border',0) ;
// doing some process here
}
} catch(Exception $e) {
echo $tt_id."-Failed once.<br>";
}
}
Sometimes i am getting the following error and the script stops.
Warning: file_get_contents(http://someurl.com) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on a non-object in somefile.php on line 37
I have a php script that will return a google search but it gives me the HTTP error.
if (strstr(file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://". $url ."&gws_rd=ssl"), 'did not match any documents.'))
{
return "No";
}
else {
return "Yes";
}
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: file_get_contents(http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://google.com&gws_rd=ssl): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable
Filename: libraries/google_index.php
Line Number: 8
error : HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable.
how can i force this or something so it will get the contents.
If you put an URL as GET parameter of another URL, you must urlencode() it. Otherwise, some characters like ? or & will be considered as parts of the main URL.
Try encoding the whole URL, like:
$string = "google.com/search?q=site:". urlencode($url ."&gws_rd=ssl")
I have a PHP script that connects to an api and posts information to their systems, but when its trying to connect it throws a fatal error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Problem with
'http://apitestserver.co.uk:9000/Service.svc/Items' in
/var/www/html/e/connect_test.php:17 Stack trace: #0
/var/www/html/e/connect_test.php(39):
do_http_request('http://apitest....', 'hello') #1 {main} thrown in
/var/www/html/e/connect_test.php on line 17
If I send it to a PHP script which just grabs the IP then it works, but if I send it to the API it doesn't. My PHP script creates XML and then forwards to the server. I was getting errors so I just created the following smaller script purely to test the connection:
function do_http_request($url, $data, $method = 'POST',
$optional_headers = 'Content-Type: application/atom+xml') {
$params = array(
'http' => array(
'method' => $method,
'content' => $data
)
);
if ($optional_headers !== null) {
$params['http']['header'] = $optional_headers;
}
$ctx = stream_context_create($params);
$fp = fopen($url, 'rb', false, $ctx);
if (!$fp) {
throw new Exception("Problem with $url");
}
$response = #stream_get_contents($fp);
if ($response === false) {
throw new Exception("Problem reading data from $url");
}
$metaData = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
fclose($fp);
if(!preg_match('~^HTTP.*([0-9]{3})~',
$metaData['wrapper_data'][0], $matches)){
throw new Exception('MALFORED RESPONSE - COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HTTP CODE');
}
if (substr($matches[1], 0, 1) != '2') {
throw new Exception('SERVER REPORTED HTTP ERROR ' . $matches[1]);
}
return $response;
}
$data = 'hello';
$paul =
do_http_request('http://apitestserver.co.uk:9000/Service.svc/Items',$data);
echo $paul;
If I change the URL to a simple script on another one of our servers which just grabs the IP of the incoming connection and returns it:
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
echo 'IP equals = ' . $ip;
Then it works fine with no errors.
Update -
with errors on it throws the following warning, probably because the script is not sending the correct info to the API
Warning: fopen(http://apitestserver.co.uk:9000/Service.svc/Items)
[function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1
500 Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
Also note that I can access the api server fine using fiddler to send manually created items across, its just when this script tries to connect and send data there is an issue. I wrote another quick script which connects and prints out the default response (an rss feed of submitted items)
When I run the 'main' connector script it throws the following two errors
Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: php_network_getaddresses:
getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in
/var/www/html/e/sequence.php on line 65
Warning: fopen(http://apitestserver.co.uk:9000/Service.svc/Items)
[function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Operation now in progress
in /var/www/html/e/sequence.php on line 65
I would suggest using curl instead of fopen(). curl is both more flexible, and more secure. Many servers disable allow_url_fopen, curl also fails more gracefully when there are problems on the remote server.
I just tested the URL in my browser and got a connection error.
Maybe the problem is with their server (or you have the wrong URL)?
Edit:
Looks like ther server is throwing a 500 error - maybe because the data you're posting is invalid.
You could use a packet sniffer and check the exact data you're sending to the server (or use cURL as suggested by #acrosman)
apitestserver.co.uk doesn't respond to ping and the url is inaccessable. The API-server doesn't seem to be up.
or You can change the headers:
$optional_headers = 'Content-Type: application/json')
First error message suggests problems with apitestserver - it returns error code 500, which states for "Internal server error".
Second one informs that PHP can't resolve host name into IP address - I'd look into DNS configuration and/or hosts file.
Apparently 'fopen' function does not return proper stream. There can be many possibilities when that happens, but according to PHP manual, fopen function on fail should present E_WARNING message with proper commentary. It is possible that you have errors of that class silenced - call error_reporting(E_ALL) at the beginning of your script and look for some relevant error messages.