Is it possible to parse JSON with Goutte? - php

Question

I'm working on crawling web sites and there is no problem for parsing HTML with Goutte so far. But I need to retrieve JSON from a web site and because of the cookie management, I don't want to do this with file_get_contents() - that doesn't work.
I can do with pure cURL but in this case I just want to use Goutte and don't want to use any other library.
So is there any method that I can parse only text via Goutte or do I really have to do this with good old methods?
/* Sample Code */
$client = new Client();
$crawler = $client->request('foo');
$crawler = $crawler->filter('bar'); // of course not working
Thank you.

Answer 1

After very deep search inside Goutte libraries I found a way and I wanted to share. Because Goutte is really powerful library but there are so complicated documentation.
Parsing JSON via (Goutte > Guzzle)
Just get needed output page and store json into an array.
$client = new Client(); // Goutte Client
$request = $client->getClient()->createRequest('GET', 'http://***.json');
/* getClient() for taking Guzzle Client */
$response = $request->send(); // Send created request to server
$data = $response->json(); // Returns PHP Array
Parsing JSON with Cookies via (Goutte + Guzzle) - For authentication
Send request one of the page of the site (main page looks better) to get cookies and then use these cookies for authentication.
$client = new Client(); // Goutte Client
$crawler = $client->request("GET", "http://foo.bar");
/* Send request directly and get whole data. It includes cookies from server and
it automatically stored in Goutte Client object */
$request = $client->getClient()->createRequest('GET', 'http://foo.bar/baz.json');
/* getClient() for taking Guzzle Client */
$cookies = $client->getRequest()->getCookies();
foreach ($cookies as $key => $value) {
$request->addCookie($key, $value);
}
/* Get cookies from Goutte Client and add to cookies in Guzzle request */
$response = $request->send(); // Send created request to server
$data = $response->json(); // Returns PHP Array
I hope it helps. Because I almost spend 3 days to understand Gouttle and it's components.

Answer 2

I figured this out after several hours of search , simply do this :
$client = new Client(); // Goutte Client
$crawler = $client->request("GET", "http://foo.bar");
$jsonData = $crawler->text();

Answer 3

mithataydogmus' solution didn't work for me. I created a new class "BetterClient":
use Goutte\Client as GoutteClient;
class BetterClient extends GoutteClient
{
private $guzzleResponse;
public function getGuzzleResponse() {
return $this->guzzleResponse;
}
protected function createResponse($response)
{
$this->guzzleResponse = $response;
return parent::createResponse($response);
}
}
Usage:
$client = new BetterClient();
$request = $client->request('GET', $url);
$data = $client->getGuzzleResponse()->json();

Answer 4

I also could get JSON with:
$client->getResponse()->getContent()->getContents()