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user1493588
user1493588

Reputation: 3

PHP file_get_contents() throws error "failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! <!doctype html>"

I'm trying to return JSON results from a page but I get the following error using file_get_contents(): " failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! "

Can someone tell me why I get this error?

<?

$newURL = 'https://api.qwant.com/api/search/images?count=10&offset=1&q=Spicy 
Cranberry Cavolo Nero (Kale)';



$returnedData = file_get_contents($newURL);

?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2411

Answers (1)

Ivan Ponomarev
Ivan Ponomarev

Reputation: 46

  1. Never use <? ?>. Use only <?php ?> or <?= ?>
  2. urlencode() use only on values of your parameters, not on the whole parameter's line.

  3. file_get_contents() is not a really good method to receive data from the outer servers. Better use CURL.

    <?php

// Your URL with encoded parts
$newURL = 'https://api.qwant.com/api/search/images?count=10&offset=1&q='.urlencode('Spicy Cranberry Cavolo Nero (Kale)');

// This is related to the specifics of this api server, 
// it requires you to provide useragent header
$options = array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'any-user-agent-you-want',
);

// Preparing CURL
$curl_handle = curl_init($newURL);

// Setting array of options
curl_setopt_array( $curl_handle, $options );

// Getting the content
$content = curl_exec($curl_handle);

// Closing conenction
curl_close($curl_handle);

// From this point you have $content with your JSON data received from API server

?>

Upvotes: 1

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