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Reputation: 3831

Downloading an Image From an External URL With cURL

How do I download an external image off a url with cURL?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9796

Answers (2)

Antonio Torres
Antonio Torres

Reputation: 446

from php.net - also reads into a string.

   <?php
        // create curl resource
        $ch = curl_init();

        // set url
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com");

        //return the transfer as a string
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        // $output contains the output string
        $output = curl_exec($ch);

        // close curl resource to free up system resources
        curl_close($ch);     
?>

Upvotes: 0

SW4
SW4

Reputation: 71140

See here:

http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/php/php-save-images-using-curl/

function save_image($img,$fullpath){
 $ch = curl_init ($img);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
 $rawdata=curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close ($ch);
 if(file_exists($fullpath)){
  unlink($fullpath);
 }
 $fp = fopen($fullpath,'x');
 fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
 fclose($fp);
}

Other articles/sources:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=371632

http://www.bitrepository.com/download-image.html

http://php.bigresource.com/Track/php-Jjg3DsKY/

Upvotes: 3

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