php file_get_contents error

murffatksig · 2010-01-20 04:14:29

I'm trying to use php to pull data from wikipedia. Wikipedia has an api (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php), but it's not documented very well. Using the api, I'm able to get the title of a random page, then I use file_get_contents to get the text of a page so I can display it. The code looks something like this...

//$link hard coded for example
$link = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasar_Senen_Station";

$page = file_get_contents($link);
echo $page;

For some pages (like the one in the example, it does not work and I get the following error.

Warning: file_get_contents(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasar_Senen_Station) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden

For other pages, it works fine and displays the page. Any php devs know what's going on? I tried adding a context, but that didnt seem to work. Although, I'm not sure I did it correctly. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

n0dix · 2010-01-20 20:27:09

Check that the PHP setting allow_url_fopen is set to On. Use phpinfo() to check all settings. And your firewall

murffatksig · 2010-01-20 20:49:51

n0dix wrote:

Check that the PHP setting allow_url_fopen is set to On. Use phpinfo() to check all settings. And your firewall

allow_url_fopen is set to on. I verified via phpinfo(), but I didn't really have to because some pages work and some don't. The fact that some pages work would also tend to rule out the firewall concern.

urist · 2010-01-20 20:53:03

Maybe it was a problem on Wikipedia's end. I remember trying your code yesterday and it not working. I just tried again and it works.

murffatksig · 2010-01-20 21:07:17

Hmm, yea I just noticed the article I orginally hardcoded is working now. But theres still some random articles that don't work. I tried again with http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Taquari and it didn't work. Strange.

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#1 2010-01-20 04:14:29

php file_get_contents error

#2 2010-01-20 20:27:09

Re: php file_get_contents error

#3 2010-01-20 20:49:51

Re: php file_get_contents error

#4 2010-01-20 20:53:03

Re: php file_get_contents error

#5 2010-01-20 21:07:17

Re: php file_get_contents error

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