I'm completely new to cURL and API's, but i'm attempting to build an application that uses GitHubs Code Search API.
in my XAMPP Shell, I can execute the below string with no problems
curl -u myuser https://api.github.com/search/code?q=XXX+language:XXX?access_token=XXX
Now, as i'm trying to use cURL in PHP i run into some problems, my code below:
$url = 'https://api.github.com/search/code?q=' . $term . 'language:' . $lang . 'stars:' . $stars . '?access_token=' . $token;
$cInit = curl_init();
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // 1 = TRUE
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user . ':' . $pwd);
$output = curl_exec($cInit);
$info = curl_getinfo($cInit, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$result = json_decode($output);
curl_close($cInit);
When i var_dump($result); The page greets me with a null value
I checked the HTTP_CODE with the below code:
$info = curl_getinfo($cInit, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
var_dump($info);
Which then tells me int(403) which is 403 Forbidden which relates to something authentication related. What exactly am i doing wrong in this situation?
Some little debugging would’ve pointed it out.
If you don't send a user agent then you will get a 403 error, outputting $output yields:
Request forbidden by administrative rules. Please make sure your request has a User-Agent header (http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required). Check https://developer.github.com for other possible causes.
A quick look at the docs your also sending access_token which is not required, as your using auth basic.
Ive changed the url and the following works fine:
<?php
$user = 'Your Github Username';
$pwd = 'Your Github Password';
$url = 'https://api.github.com/search/code?q=addClass+in:file+language:js+repo:jquery/jquery';
$cInit = curl_init();
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // 1 = TRUE
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($cInit, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user . ':' . $pwd);
$output = curl_exec($cInit);
$info = curl_getinfo($cInit, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$result = json_decode($output);
curl_close($cInit);
echo '<pre>'.print_r($result, true).'</pre>';
Result:
stdClass Object
(
[total_count] => 8
[incomplete_results] =>
[items] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[name] => classes.js
[path] => src/attributes/classes.js
[sha] => 0c90a8dffdb95ec4678f18e07623f9d111c32540
[url] => https://api.github.com/repositories/167174/contents/src/attributes/classes.js?ref=3d732cca6b5076a9d13eee98e2b075b37384cd91
[git_url] => https://api.github.com/repositories/167174/git/blobs/0c90a8dffdb95ec4678f18e07623f9d111c32540
[html_url] => https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/3d732cca6b5076a9d13eee98e2b075b37384cd91/src/attributes/classes.js
[repository] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 167174
[name] => jquery
[full_name] => jquery/jquery
[owner] => stdClass Object
(
[login] => jquery
[id] => 70142
[avatar_url] => https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/70142?v=4
[gravatar_id] =>
[url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery
[html_url] => https://github.com/jquery
[followers_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/followers
[following_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/following{/other_user}
[gists_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/gists{/gist_id}
[starred_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/starred{/owner}{/repo}
[subscriptions_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/subscriptions
[organizations_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/orgs
[repos_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/repos
[events_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/events{/privacy}
[received_events_url] => https://api.github.com/users/jquery/received_events
[type] => Organization
[site_admin] =>
)
[private] =>
[html_url] => https://github.com/jquery/jquery
[description] => jQuery JavaScript Library
[fork] =>
[url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery
[forks_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/forks
[keys_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/keys{/key_id}
[collaborators_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/collaborators{/collaborator}
[teams_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/teams
[hooks_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/hooks
[issue_events_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/events{/number}
[events_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/events
[assignees_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/assignees{/user}
[branches_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/branches{/branch}
[tags_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/tags
[blobs_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/git/blobs{/sha}
[git_tags_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/git/tags{/sha}
[git_refs_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/git/refs{/sha}
[trees_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/git/trees{/sha}
[statuses_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/statuses/{sha}
[languages_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/languages
[stargazers_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/stargazers
[contributors_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/contributors
[subscribers_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/subscribers
[subscription_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/subscription
[commits_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/commits{/sha}
[git_commits_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/git/commits{/sha}
[comments_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/comments{/number}
[issue_comment_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/comments{/number}
[contents_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/contents/{+path}
[compare_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/compare/{base}...{head}
[merges_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/merges
[archive_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/{archive_format}{/ref}
[downloads_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/downloads
[issues_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues{/number}
[pulls_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/pulls{/number}
[milestones_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/milestones{/number}
[notifications_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/notifications{?since,all,participating}
[labels_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/labels{/name}
[releases_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/releases{/id}
[deployments_url] => https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/deployments
)
[score] => 0.5187095
)
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