Wordpress Medium API issue - 403 Forbidden on Azure

Question

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

Possible duplicate of [file\_get\_contents returns 403 forbidden](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4545790/file-get-contents-returns-403-forbidden) — Aaron Chen, Jan 17 '18 at 08:29

Argus Duong · Answer 1 · 2018-01-17T05:10:30.020

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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>";

edited Jan 17 '18 at 05:10

answered Jan 17 '18 at 04:33

Argus Duong

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Yes its say same thing.Let me explain you my wordpress in Azure right now. – Vasim Shaikh Jan 17 '18 at 04:42
May you try get some other sites content like https://httpbin.org/ip. If it's successful, maybe Medium is blocking your IP from request. – Argus Duong Jan 17 '18 at 04:46
It working for another website that hosted on linux server. – Vasim Shaikh Jan 17 '18 at 04:51
Is there any setting for allow domain in Medium? – Vasim Shaikh Jan 17 '18 at 04:52
Hmmm. I don't familar to Azure so I can't advice you. But it's only two problem: 1. Medium is blocking your IP I guess, 2. Your server certificate have problem. So add this line `curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);` before `curl_exec` and try again. Hope this help. – Argus Duong Jan 17 '18 at 05:04
Let me try with above option – Vasim Shaikh Jan 17 '18 at 05:08
Still getting a same issue – Vasim Shaikh Jan 17 '18 at 05:25

Wordpress Medium API issue - 403 Forbidden on Azure

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