Having trouble grabbing bitcoin price

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

I use this code to grab my current rates on http://spendbitcoins.com:

Code:

<?php
$a=ouvrirpage("http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$last = round ($res['ticker']['sell'], 2);

echo $last;

function ouvrirpage($site){
	$ch = curl_init($site);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$res = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $res;
}

?>

Normally, this returns the current sell rate at mtgox. The mtgox api is still up, but instead of returning the current sell rate, it is returning 0.

Actually, I normally use the tradehill api, but it is down at the moment (https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Ticker). Can anyone tell me how to get my rates up and running again? I hate my site being broken at any time!

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[notme]

I use this code to grab my current rates on http://spendbitcoins.com:

Code:

<?php
$a=ouvrirpage("http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$last = round ($res['ticker']['sell'], 2);

echo $last;

function ouvrirpage($site){
	$ch = curl_init($site);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$res = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $res;
}

?>

Normally, this returns the current sell rate at mtgox. The mtgox api is still up, but instead of returning the current sell rate, it is returning 0.

Actually, I normally use the tradehill api, but it is down at the moment (https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Ticker). Can anyone tell me how to get my rates up and running again? I hate my site being broken at any time!

Edit: moved comment out of quote

Visiting that url works fine... I'm not a php expert though.  I'd suggest echoing $a, and $res in addition to $last to make sure they are what you think they are.

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

I use this code to grab my current rates on http://spendbitcoins.com:

Code:

<?php
$a=ouvrirpage("http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$last = round ($res['ticker']['sell'], 2);

echo $last;

function ouvrirpage($site){
	$ch = curl_init($site);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$res = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $res;
}

Hmmmm.... I don't know what to expect because I had someone here write this code for me for a 1 BTC bounty. :)

$a returns "redirecting you to http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php" and $res doesn't seem to return anything.

At any rate, don't be fooled by the fact that there are now prices on my website. I've put them in manually for now, which is not the way I like to do things. So any help by someone well versed in php is still appreciated. Thanks!

?>

Visiting that url works fine... I'm not a php expert though.  I'd suggest echoing $a, and $res in addition to $last to make sure they are what you think they are.

Normally, this returns the current sell rate at mtgox. The mtgox api is still up, but instead of returning the current sell rate, it is returning 0.

Actually, I normally use the tradehill api, but it is down at the moment (https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Ticker). Can anyone tell me how to get my rates up and running again? I hate my site being broken at any time!

[blueadept]

I use this code to grab my current rates on http://spendbitcoins.com:

Code:

<?php
$a=ouvrirpage("https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");
...
?>

Normally, this returns the current sell rate at mtgox. The mtgox api is still up, but instead of returning the current sell rate, it is returning 0.
Actually, I normally use the tradehill api, but it is down at the moment (https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Ticker). Can anyone tell me how to get my rates up and running again? I hate my site being broken at any time!

Visiting that url works fine... I'm not a php expert though.  I'd suggest echoing $a, and $res in addition to $last to make sure they are what you think they are.

Hmmmm.... I don't know what to expect because I had someone here write this code for me for a 1 BTC bounty.

$a returns "redirecting you to http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php" and $res doesn't seem to return anything.

At any rate, don't be fooled by the fact that there are now prices on my website. I've put them in manually for now, which is not the way I like to do things. So any help by someone well versed in php is still appreciated. Thanks!

Change the "http" to "https" in the URL.  Here's what I'm getting:

Code:

$ wget -O - http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
--2011-12-20 09:39:53--  http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
Resolving mtgox.com... 72.52.5.67
Connecting to mtgox.com|72.52.5.67|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php [following]
--2011-12-20 09:39:53--  https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
Connecting to mtgox.com|72.52.5.67|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 153 [application/json]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

 0% [                                       ] 0           --.-K/s              {"ticker":{"high":4.5,"low":3.409,"avg":3.815959343,"vwap":3.886831982,"vol":1466100%[======================================>] 153         --.-K/s   in 0s

2011-12-20 09:39:54 (2.03 MB/s) - written to stdout [153/153]

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Edit: Fixed/shortened quotes.

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

Thanks. I'll have a look at that in the morning (my morning). In the meantime, got it working again with the Tradehill api.

[BinoX]

Weirdly enough I've been having problems getting a php script to get the mtgox api information, but it works fine for all other sites... Possibly there's some kind of extra header in there that's upsetting the php curl implementation?

Edit:

I suspect it's because mtgox are sending the header
Content-Type: application/json

and most other places seem to send
Content-Type: text/html

[BinoX]

I have a solution for you.

Here is your code that I have updated:

This was tested under php 5.2.5 (Windows - IIS) and 5.3.8 (Ubuntu - Apache)

Code:

<?php

function ouvrirpage($site){  //Make sure the function goes at the top of the page....
	 $ch = curl_init($site);
	 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Something Must Be Here/0.1"); //MtGox seems to REQUIRE this to be short...
	 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);  //This was missing

	 $res = curl_exec($ch);
	 curl_close($ch);
	 return $res;
}


$a=ouvrirpage("https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");  ///updated to https
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$last = round($res['ticker']['sell'], 2);

echo $last;
?>

Edit: The "MtGox seems to REQUIRE this to be short..." only seems to be true for some versions of php (5.3.6 was fine with the original user agent string), bit of an unusual one that... But you could put whatever you wanted in there, e.g. "Your Web Site MtGox Module/1.0" or whatever

[adamstgBit]

I use this code to grab my current rates on http://spendbitcoins.com:

Code:

<?php
$a=ouvrirpage("http://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$last = round ($res['ticker']['sell'], 2);

echo $last;

function ouvrirpage($site){
	$ch = curl_init($site);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$res = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $res;
}

?>

Normally, this returns the current sell rate at mtgox. The mtgox api is still up, but instead of returning the current sell rate, it is returning 0.

Actually, I normally use the tradehill api, but it is down at the moment (https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Ticker). Can anyone tell me how to get my rates up and running again? I hate my site being broken at any time!

you should account for the possibility that the website could be down or to busy, to respond.
consider making a corn job that would update a value on your database IF everything checked out.

[mc_lovin]

My tradehill API ticker died for like 6-12 hours yesterday (or the day before i cant remember) but it started working again.  It just said "timed out" instead of showing prices.

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

My tradehill API ticker died for like 6-12 hours yesterday (or the day before i cant remember) but it started working again.  It just said "timed out" instead of showing prices.

Yeah. Mine started working again too.