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Scripter
Scripter

Reputation: 579

PHP Get contents of webpage JSON

After running the code below, I get a empty page. I would like to get the price from bids and asks, but I can't get any data.

<?php
    ini_set('display_errors', '1');
    error_reporting(E_ALL);

    $url="https://api.gdax.com/products/BTC-EUR/book"; 
    $json = @file_get_contents($url);
    if($json){
        $data = @json_decode($json, TRUE);
        print_r($data);
    }
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 204

Answers (1)

Mikel Bitson
Mikel Bitson

Reputation: 3627

The issue is that this API appears to be blocking these types of requests. They will not allow users that do not have a useragent set.

The fastest way to get around this is to set a UserAgent within PHP, which you can do by putting this code above your call to the API:

ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0');

However, I would recommend using CURL instead of file_get_contents, as file_get_contents is often restricted by server configuration.

Upvotes: 4

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