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phpgoogle-app-enginefile-get-contentsurl-shortenergoogle-url-shortener
Yogesh Lakhotia
Yogesh Lakhotia

Reputation: 888

Google URL Shortener not working using file_get_contents

I am trying to short url with google api my site is hosted on google app engine so i cant use CURL have to use file_get_contents 

$link = 'http://wwww.example.com';

$data = array('longUrl' => $link, 'key' => $apiKey);
$data = http_build_query($data);

$context = [
  'http' => [
  'method' => 'post',
  'header'=>'Content-Type:application/json',
  'content' => $data
  ]
];

$context = stream_context_create($context);
$result = file_get_contents('https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url', false, $context);

$json = json_decode($result);
print_r($json);

Above code gives error

stdClass Object
(
    [error] => stdClass Object
        (
            [errors] => Array
                (
                    [0] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [domain] => global
                            [reason] => parseError
                            [message] => Parse Error
                        )

                )

            [code] => 400
            [message] => Parse Error
        )

)

Please correct me where i am doing wrong :(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1592

Answers (2)

alex marmon
alex marmon

Reputation: 361

For anyone else that comes across this, I was able to get it working with the following:

$link = 'http://www.google.com';
$data = array('longUrl' => $link);

$context = [
  'http' => [
    'method' => 'post',
    'header'=>'Content-Type:application/json',
    'content' => json_encode($data)
  ]
];

$context = stream_context_create($context);
$result = file_get_contents('https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=your_key_here', false, $context);

// Return the JSONified results
$this->output->set_output($result);

Upvotes: 0

Mars
Mars

Reputation: 1412

The API is expecting a JSON-encoded request body (see https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/v1/url#resource), so you should really use json_encode instead of http_build_query.

Upvotes: 2

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