How to get GitHub raw file contents with PHP?

Question

I am browsing Github info/docs but cant find any simple example on how to get contents of a raw Github file.

For example if I try to use

$url ="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife/master/index.html";

echo file_get_contents($url);

I get failed to open stream: HTTP...

If I use curl same thing 404 page. So obviously I have to use API but there is just no simple example on how to do it. Can someone please post plain example. Thank you!

stupid ssl , stackoverflow.com/a/7123591/594423, thnx , but curl still fails — Benn
– Benn, Commented May 26, 2014 at 15:56
curl fails because you need to specify the option CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false for curl_setopt — Rahil Wazir
– Rahil Wazir, Commented May 26, 2014 at 15:59
add standard security considerations for doing curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); stackoverflow.com/questions/13740933/… — dreftymac
– dreftymac, Commented Jul 17, 2014 at 15:41

IgorCarvalho · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-26 16:16:47Z

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You can use a different method to escape SSL validation and add more options if you want, with CURL function.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife/master/index.html');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $data;

Works fine for me here, you just need to enable, if was not, the curl extension.

answered May 26, 2014 at 16:16

IgorCarvalho

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add standard security considerations for doing curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); stackoverflow.com/questions/13740933/…

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