使用cURL和PHP从iTunes中检索RSS Feed

Question

Been trying to get some PHP cURL code to work that gets the RSS feed from iTunes when you give it the podcast URL. Here is the code:

$inputString = "curl -A 'iTunes/12.1.1.4 (Windows; U; Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601) DPI/96' -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id530114975'";  
$input = shell_exec($inputString);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$html = $dom->loadHTML($input);

The cURL call when executed using shell_exec returns a blank string. When I call the loadHTML function it gives the following error, which is pretty obvious given the cURL call doesn't return anything.....

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Empty string supplied as input in C:\php scripts\itunesFeedExtractor.php on line 130

Now, I got the PHP cURL code from somewhere else, haven't used it before, and tried to modify it to match my computers setup.... I've changed Windows version, service pack, build no. (Don't know why the DPI/96 is needed so I left it alone)

Answer 1

Well I got it working by adding to more curl_setopt() options. The full code now reads:

$ch = curl_init("https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id530114975");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "iTunes/12.1.1.4 (Windows; U; Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601) DPI/96");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

Cheers.....