Buying PHP and CURL scraping expert needed

Hi

I'm looking for some help to get image data from ubid.com auctions using php and curl. I have managed to scrape the url of an image - this looks like this:

http://static.ubid.com/mgen/vximg/scale.ms?args=%221_10203259_0.jpg%22,275,275

Code (markup):

If I wrap an html img tag around this, the image displays ok. When I try to use getimagesize(), it returns an empty array as though the file does not exist.

First person to help me solve this issue gets $10

Thanks,
Joe

 

have pm sent.
thanks.

 

Sent you a PM.

 

getimagesize expects a valid file hosted on your own server, thus you will have to download the image before being able to get it's size.

preg_match('#args=%(.*?)%#si', $image_url, $filename); // Get the filename (stored as $filename[1]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
file_put_contents('temporary/'.$filename[1], $data); // Store the file

print_r(getimagesize('temporary/'.$filename[1]));

unlink('temporary/'.$filename[1]); // Delete the file

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This should help you, please donate the $10 to a charity.

PS: Make sure to create the temporary directory and chmod it to 777. There are alternative ways on how to do this however unless you're very experienced at cUrl this is the most suitable method for you.

 

Wrong.

"It can reference a local file or (configuration permitting) a remote file using one of the supported streams."
http://php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php

If you have the http:// wrapper enabled, the following works:

<?php print_r(getimagesize('http://static.ubid.com/mgen/vximg/scale.ms?args=%221_10203259_0.jpg%22,275,275')); ?>

PHP:

 

Thanks ThomThom, and SentoWeb to make ThomThom share his knowledge.

 

This has now been sorted. The problem was that I needed to use trim on the variable that I was using to hold the image url - there must have been white space at one or both ends of the variable.

Thanks to everyone that offered help.

Joe

 

First time you must save the image on your hosting and then get it's resolution.

 

No, you are incorrect as already pointed out by several people in this thread. My issue was that there was whitespace in the url