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Vasim Shaikh
Vasim Shaikh

Reputation: 4542

Wordpress Medium API issue - 403 Forbidden on Azure

Note Issue appear in Azure Server.It wont allow get details to CURL.

I have an issue with a display post in footer.When I try to get it via file_get_content as well as used a CURL but still have issue.

$url="https://medium.com/@username/latest?format=json";
$homepage = file_get_contents($url);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($homepage);
echo "</pre>";

Its work in a Linux but when I move to windows Azure after this it will give following error.

Warning: file_get_contents(https://medium.com/@username/latest?format=json) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

Upvotes: 0

Views: 325

Answers (1)

Argus Duong
Argus Duong

Reputation: 2654

I think your problem is missing User-agent in your request. Better use cURL with User-agent option:

function curl_get_contents($url){
   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
   $data = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch);
   return $data;
}

Now you can get content of endpoint like this:

$url="https://medium.com/@hackernoon/latest?format=json";
$homepage = curl_get_contents($url);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($homepage);
echo "</pre>";

Upvotes: 1

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