php crawler for wiki getting error

Question

In the below code I am trying to extract the content from the website using the php code, which is working fine when I use getElementByIdAsString('www.abebooks.com/9780143418764/Love-Story-Singh-Ravinder-0143418769/plp', 'synopsis');

But it is not working when I use the same code to extract content from wikipedia, getElementByIdAsString('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time', 'Summary');

Below is my code and the exception I am getting when I use the latter one.Can someone correct my code to extract wikipedia content based on the id

Thanks in advance.

<?php


function getElementByIdAsString($url, $id, $pretty = true) {
    $doc = new DOMDocument();

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);


//    var_dump($doc->loadHTMLFile($url)); die;
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);
    if(!$result) {
        throw new Exception("Failed to load $url");
    }
    $doc->loadHTML($result);
    // Obtain the element
    $element = $doc->getElementById($id);

    if(!$element) {
        throw new Exception("An element with id $id was not found");
    }

    if($pretty) {
        $doc->formatOutput = true;
    }

    // Return the string representation of the element
    return $doc->saveXML($element);
}

//Here I am dispalying the output in bold text
echo getElementByIdAsString('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time', 'Summary');

?>

Exception

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Failed to load http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time' in C:\xampp\htdocs\example2.php:18 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\example2.php(40): getElementByIdAsString() #1 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\example2.php on line 18

Your help would be very greatful :-)

Answer 1

try to add:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

Update after discuss in comment:

<?php

function getElementByIdAsString($url, $id, $pretty = true) {
    $doc = new DOMDocument();

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);
    if(!$result) {
        throw new Exception("Failed to load $url");
    }
    $doc->loadHTML($result);
    // Obtain the element
    $element = $doc->getElementById($id);

    if(!$element) {
        throw new Exception("An element with id $id was not found");
    }

    if($pretty) {
        $doc->formatOutput = true;
    }

    $output = '';
    $node = $element->parentNode;

    while(true) {
        $node = $node->nextSibling;
        if(!$node) {
            break;
        }
        if($node->nodeName == 'p') {
            $output .= $node->nodeValue;
        }
        if($node->nodeName == 'h2') {
            break;
        }
    }

    return $output;
}

//Here I am dispalying the output in bold text
var_dump(getElementByIdAsString('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time', 'Summary'));

You probably could also use xPaths or just use the whole response and cut whatever you want with regex