PHP/cURL Problem - Login is successful, yet unable to browse members area.

[LoveCats]

Hello,

 

I was just trying to create a php script to login to video and get get some members data like, recently favorited video, active no. of subscriptions etc.

 

This is where I am running into trouble, I've created a code for logging in. The login is successful, the cookie is also saved. I am logging in with persistent cookie so its doesn't expire. But after that, if I try to get to "http://youtube.com" with the same cookie, it doesn't work. The page returned is same as the non-logged in one.

 

Please can anyone help me regarding the issue. I would be greatly thankful to you.

 

And please don't ask me to use the YouTube API. I am planning to add certian functionality which the API don't support. So even if my current probelm [getting active number of susbcriptions etc] is solved, I'll require a direct intervention in near future when I'll implement the other functionality which is not a part of API. So its better to make a custom code from starting.

 

 

Here's my code:

 

<?php
$username = 'USRENAME';
$password = 'PASSWORD';
$cookie_jar = "cookies/cookie.txt";
$useragent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1";

$login_form = LoginPage($cookie_jar, $useragent); 
$final = Login($login_form, $username, $password, $cookie_jar, $useragent);
$video = getVideo("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2NocuEihw", $cookie_jar, $useragent);

print_r($video);

function Login($form, $username, $password, $cookie_jar, $agent) {

//$referer = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?uilel=3&service=youtube&passive=true&continue=http://www.youtube.com/signin?action_handle_signin=true&nomobiletemp=1&hl=en_US&next=%2Findex&hl=en_US&ltmpl=sso";

$pattern = '/(?s)name="GALX"(.*?)value="(.*?)"/';
preg_match($pattern, $youtube_form, $matches); 
$galx = $matches[2];

$post = "ltmpl=sso&continue=";
$post .= urlencode("http://www.youtube.com/signin?action_handle_signin=true&nomobiletemp=1&hl=en_US&next=/");
$post .= "index&service=youtube&uilel=3&ltmpl=sso&hl=en_US&ltmpl=sso&GALX=$galx&Email=$username&Passwd=$password&PersistentCookie=yes&rmShown=1&signIn=Sign in&asts=";

       $ch = curl_init();
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=youtube");
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); 
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_jar);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_jar);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post); 
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
        
       $output = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        
        return $output;
}

function LoginPage($cookie_jar, $agent) {

$url = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?uilel=3&service=youtube&passive=true&continue=http://www.youtube.com/signin?action_handle_signin=true&nomobiletemp=1&hl=en_US&next=%2Findex&hl=en_US&ltmpl=sso";
$referer = "http://www.youtube.com/";
           
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer); 
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_jar);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_jar);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);

        $output = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        
        $pattern = '/(?s)\<form(.*?)\<\/form\>/';
        preg_match_all($pattern,  $output , $matches);
        
        $youtube_form = $matches[0][1];
       
        return $youtube_form;

}

function getVideo($url, $cookie_jar, $agent){
       $referer = "";
       $ch = curl_init();
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer); 
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_jar);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_jar);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);

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

?>

[pornophobic]

Do you have error reporting on?

 

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in C:\xampp\htdocs\youtube.php on line 66

Notice: Undefined variable: youtube_form in C:\xampp\htdocs\youtube.php on line 18

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in C:\xampp\htdocs\youtube.php on line 19

[LoveCats]

Do you have error reporting on?

 

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in C:\xampp\htdocs\youtube.php on line 66

Notice: Undefined variable: youtube_form in C:\xampp\htdocs\youtube.php on line 18

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in C:\xampp\htdocs\youtube.php on line 19

 

The second error is just mistake while experimenting. I just written $youtube_form there instead of $form. While I tested things were proper. However, the error you've notified doesn't seem to relate to my question. Its saying undefined offset because I haven't specifically allotted value to matches[0][1] before using it I suppose.

 

As I've stated, the cookies are being stored but while using it with getVideo() function, those cookies are just not working. The login is successful.

[LoveCats]

No one could help?

 

Please at least show me some direction.

[Skamrani2002]

hey im still getting the error that is your cookies is off trun it on...? Can any body help me

[kicken]

Use youtube's Data API rather than try and hack together a horrible screen-scrape solution.