PHP cURL json response from Spotify

Question

I'm trying to get information from the Spotify API. When accessing this URL in my browser, it all works perfect; https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Led%20Zeppelin%20Kashmir&type=track

However, then I use this code to try to get the data I'm just getting a white page. I've Googled and searched Stackoverflow, but still no cigar. Does anyone know why this code doesn't work?

Appreciate any help on this.

$artist = 'Led Zeppelin';
$title = 'Kashmir';

$spotifyURL = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q='.$artist.'%20'.$title.'&type=track';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $spotifyURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:x.x.x) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/x.x");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$json = curl_exec($ch);
$json = json_decode($json);
curl_close($ch);

echo '<pre>'.print_r($json, true).'</pre>';

Check to see if the page redirects, if it does there is an option in curl to follow redirects. — MoniXx
– MoniXx, Commented Aug 29, 2015 at 19:32
artist and $title need to be urlencoded in the URL. In this case the problem is the space in Led Zeppelin. — lafor
– lafor, Commented Aug 29, 2015 at 19:41

uri2x · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-29 19:40:25Z

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Your URL contains spaces. Use the following line instead:

$spotifyURL = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q='.urlencode($artist.' '.$title).'&type=track';

answered Aug 29, 2015 at 19:40

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zorensen Over a year ago

You're absolutely right! Thanks! This solved it for me.

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