Topic: Purple Air Script Stopped Working

[satcop]

Well it appears something changed in the last few days.  A script that I was using for about 6 months to retrieve my purpleair aqi is now giving a warning and has broke. Receiving this warning message Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.purpleair.com/json?show=16378): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error.    I checked a couple of other scripts on other sites that used the same base and some of them are getting the same error. My page is https://cliftonvaweather.com/wx-purpleair.php  This error is also showing on a similar get-aqi-rss-with-link.php script.  I tried changing the file being retrieved url to https: but that didn't fix the issue.  Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Bob

[the beteljuice]

Looks like they may have gone 'secure'.

Try this non-curl example with the https url ...

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$url= 'https://example.com';

$arrContextOptions=array(
      "ssl"=>array(
            "verify_peer"=>false,
            "verify_peer_name"=>false,
        ),
    ); 

$response = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($arrContextOptions));
... from stack overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1975461/how-to-get-file-get-contents-to-work-with-https

[saratogaWX]

The PurpleAir servers were having issues the last couple of days -- a 500-Server Error is a problem with their servers, not with the request.

The PurpleAir servers seem to be working ok today. 

[satcop]

Thanks folks, while it wasn't working yesterday, it is working again today .  I will monitor, and if necessary do to any possible changes on Purpleair's end will try some fixes, but for right now I will let it ride.