Can you help me get this content spinning API working? It was wrote to work with C# but is there a way I can get it to work using PHP? I've been trying to post to the URL stated on that page using cURL, but all I'm getting back is a blank page. Here's the code I'm using:
$url = "http://api.spinnerchief.com/apikey=YourAPIKey&username=YourUsername&password=YourPassword";
// Some content to POST
$post_fields = "SpinnerChief is totally free. Not a 'lite' or 'trial' version, but a 100% full version and totally free. SpinnerChief may be free, but it is also one of the most powerful content creation software tools available. It's huge user-defined thesaurus means that its sysnonyms are words that YOU would normally use in real life, not some stuffy dictionary definition. And there's more...SpinnerChief can only get better, because we listen to our users, We take onboard your ideas and suggestions, and we update SpinnerChief so that it becomes the software YOU want!";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 9001);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
Can anyone see something wrong I'm doing? Thanks a lot for the help.
The value for CURLOPT_POST should be 1, and the posted data should be set with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.
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I have been searching for a way to proxy a mjpeg stream from the AXIS M1114 Network Camera.
using the following url setup
http://host:port/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240&camera=1
i try to capture the output and make them available to users with a php script running an apache server on ubuntu.
having browsed the web looking for an answer to no avail i come to you.
my ultimate goal is to have users able to link to the proxy like this:
<img src='proxy.php'>
and have the details of all the things in proxy.php.
I have tried using the way of cURL (advised in similar thread here) but i can't get it to work, probably due to lack of knowledge on the inner workings.
currently my very simple proxy.php looks like this
<?php
$camurl = "http://ip:port";
$campath = "axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi";
$userpass = "user:pw";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $camurl + $campath);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'resolution=320x240&camera=1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userpass);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
echo $result;
curl_close($ch);
?>
My understanding is that this would produce an acceptable output for my plan. But alas.
My question would be if there is a blatant error i do not see. Any simpler option/way of getting the result i aim for is welcome too.
Please point me in the right direction. I happily provide any relevant information i might have missed to provide. Thank you in advance.
solved edit:
After commenting out:
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
changing
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $camurl + $campath);
to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $camurl . $campath); (mixing up some languages)
and most importantly removing a space in the .php file so that the header is actually the header it sort of does what i wanted.
Adding a
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
seems to be needed to get the image displayed as image and not as raw data.
Thanks for stopping in :)
I break things, fiddle around, and then try to put them back together.
It is how I seem to learn best.
(One of) My recent obsession(s) has been with crypto-currency.
Since I have a little bit of knowledge working with API's through PHP and cUrl, I decided to use PHP for my fiddling.
So, I tell myself, "Why not register with a popular pool and see if I can't examine what a piece of 'work' looks like. Simple!"
I'm well aware that PHP, Json-RPC and CPU Bitcoin mining are extremely inefficient. I am not attempting to really create anything that will see the light of day; simply fiddling for fiddling's sake.
Evidently, I am just a bit ignorant on how Json-RPC and Stratum servers operate. I had thought to post this to the Bitcoin specific exchange, however I have the feeling my mistake is much more elementary than that.
The Goal: Get some work and print it to the page so I can inspect it and hopefully learn something.
My Attempt:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
function tickleElmo () {
$feed = 'http://stratum.btcguild.com';
$post_string = '{"method": "getblocktemplate", "params": [], "id": "0"}';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $feed);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 3333);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "elmoworker_1:123");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/stratum', 'Content-length: '.strlen($post_string)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/json', 'Content-length: '.strlen($post_string)));
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
$data = tickleElmo();
var_dump($data);
?>
So, I had assumed (obviously incorrectly) that simply making a POST to the end-point would yield at least some response. I can ping the server stratum.btcguild.com just fine. Yet, via cUrl I don't get anything at all... the script simply times out and returns false.
I have tried a few different Content-type's, adding a newline character to the end of the post, the getwork and getblocktemplate methods inside the $post_string, and about 2 dozen other hack and slash alterations :(
I believe that the problem lies in my understanding of Json-RPC, as I have only previously worked with simple get API end-points in the past, but I have done my personal best to read up and find a simple explanation and have hit a road-block. I just don't have the tools to understand... :(
Any thoughts or additional sources of research/information from the intelligent folks here #stackoverflow would be greatly appreciated,
Samantha.
I'm currently using this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/repress/ which basically makes my website a proxy so that users can access censored websites like this
www.mywebsite.com/proxy/www.cnn.com
The plugin works well enough but when it comes to absolute links the plugin doesn't parse it properly and the link is still blocked. That plugin development has stopped. So I need to write my own script. I've been searching everywhere and reading up on the tutorials I can find but none specifically helps me in regards to this.
I know how to use php curl to fetch a website and echo it on a blank page. What I don't know is how to set a proxy script to work like the above example where users can type
www.mywebsite.com
followed by
/proxy.php
then their target website
/www.cnn.com
Currently I have this set up:
<?php
$url = 'http://www.cnn.com';
$proxy_port = 80;
$proxy = '92.105.140.115';
$timeout = 0;
$referer = 'http://www.mydomain.com'
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, $proxy_port);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, 'HTTP');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);*/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
?>
This pulls the home page but no css or images are retrieved. Likewise all relative links are broken. I have no idea how to apply the proxy_port and proxy variables. I tried
92.105.140.115:80/www.cnn.com
but that doesn't work. I don't quite fully understand this code either since I found it on an example site.
Any answer or links for tutorials is greatly welcome.
Thank You!
To have a completely functioning proxy isn't that simple. There are many such projects already available. Give any a shot:
http://www.surrogafier.info/
https://github.com/Alexxz/Simple-php-proxy-script
http://www.glype.com/
Have fun!
you can not just echo in a page the result of a curl's fetch website because the browsers will interpret the Uris bad, you need that when the user click on a link he goes to your proxy site not to the original site, so you can't just print with echo, you need to edit manual every link in that fetched page before print it to the users, i have a full functional proxy made by php en p.listascuba.com you cant try it.
contact me for more info
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
I am still fairly new at playing with PHP. I wanted to poke at a small project. I have the ability to access an xml feed from our calendar system at work. The feed requires authentication with a username and password. I am trying to automate pulling this feed. My hope is to one day use it to automate the scheduling of another system but for now I'm just trying to get this side working.
I have read through some of the cURL documentation on php.net. I have also searched through stackoverflow for a few examples. They were helpful in getting me started but not much further. Below is what I have so far. But all I get back is:
UNAUTHORIZED The request requires
authorization
So I'm racking my head to figure out what might be the issue. Part of my problem I'm sure is my ignorance with the actual process behind what is going on between the client and server. When I interact with it normally I just go to the feed URL, the browser prompts me for a username and password, and then after putting that in it gives me an xml page.
I've checked for most of the formatting errors and syntax errors I knew to look for. That may still be it but at this point I think it's more my lack of understanding how it all fits together. Thanks for any help.
Similar issues:
Parsing XML data with Namespaces in PHP
CURL HTTP Authentication at server side
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://somesight.someplace.edu/r25ws/servlet/wrd/run/events.xml");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;
?>
I figured it out on my own after looking at a similar tutorial for Twitter. I tried a different approach to formatting the options and it worked fine. I also cut down on the number of options I was sending because it seemed like overkill. Code that works below.
<?php
$username = 'myusername';
$password = 'mypassword';
$datecall = curl_init("http://somesite.someplace.edu/r25ws/servlet/wrd/run/events.xml");
curl_setopt($datecall, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.":".$password);
curl_setopt($datecall, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($datecall);
echo $result;
?>