cURL not working sometimes and gives empty result

Question

I used cURL to get data from another website. Sometimes it shows data and sometimes empty result

Here is my Code


    function get_data($url) {
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        $agent=$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
        curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent); 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
         curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        return $data;
    }
    $returned_content = get_data('www.example.com');
    echo $returned_content;

Try to check what happens when failing by using curl_error($ch); php.net/curl_error — gvgvgvijayan
Probably has something to do with the page you're requesting, but you could try this funct instead cus it has some error handling: geneticcoder.blogspot.com/2015/02/curl-function-for-php.html — I wrestled a bear once.
Btw www.example.com is not a URL, you are missing the protocol. — Daniel W.

Developer Developer · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-30T02:40:22

Possibly you call too many connections from your curl_init to one Ip Address, So the server blocks the connection and causes the on/off errors.

cURL not working sometimes and gives empty result

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