Bad character using curl in php

Question

I have this url DespegarAPI and as you can see the content is OK. Is a JSON response.

I need that content through my own file and I use curl o file_content but the response I this my file

I have this in my file

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.despegar.com/cities?pagesize=30");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;

Thanks for the response!

The is the definition for the URL api.despegar.com

benoffi7
– benoffi7

2013-10-24 12:04:08 +00:00
Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04 — benoffi7
– benoffi7, Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04

Anthony Sterling · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-24 12:26:22Z

1

It's because the content is gzipped, here's a quick example to get you going.

<?php
function despegar($endpoint, array $params = array()) {

    $url = sprintf(
        'http://api.despegar.com/%s?%s',
        $endpoint,
        empty($params) ? null : http_build_query($params)
    );

    $handle = curl_init($url);

    curl_setopt_array($handle, array(
        CURLOPT_ENCODING        => 'gzip',
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  => true
    ));

    $response   = curl_exec($handle);
    $code       = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

    if ( ! $response || 200 != $code) {
        throw new Exception(
            sprintf('(%d) Failed to obtain data from %s.', $code, $url),
            $code
        );
    }

    return json_decode($response);
}

try {
    $cities = despegar('cities', array('pagesize' => 10));

    foreach ($cities->cities as $city) {
        printf("%s\n", $city->countryId);
    }
}catch(Exception $exception) {
    echo $exception->getMessage();
}

edited Oct 24, 2013 at 12:26

answered Oct 24, 2013 at 12:15

Anthony Sterling

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3 Comments

benoffi7 Over a year ago

Thanks but is not working...ushuaiamovil.com.ar/api/devolverCiudadesDespegar.php

Anthony Sterling Over a year ago

I don't know what the content of your script is, but the example I posted definitely works. Increase error reporting on your host and start debugging.

benoffi7 Over a year ago

I put some outputs and is working now. At least I see some results now. The problem now is the daily limit of request of the api.

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