Problem in Wikipedia API

Question

I have problem using the Wikipedia API. I use this PHP script,

<?php
  $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
  $xmlDoc->load("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=content&format=xml");

  print $xmlDoc->saveXML();
?>

and I have the following result in the browser. Why?

Warning: DOMDocument::load(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=content&format=xml) [domdocument.load]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden in D:\Program Files\VertrigoServ\www\wiki\index.php on line 3

Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=content&format=xml" in D:\Program Files\VertrigoServ\www\wiki\index.php on line 3

Can you get to it in your browser? The code works for me. – Byron Whitlock Sep 23 '10 at 21:15 — Byron Whitlock, Sep 23 '10 at 21:15

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '12 at 14:37

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For MediaWiki's User Agent policy: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy

answered Sep 19 '12 at 14:37

nl11087

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Wrikken · Answer 2 · 2010-09-23T21:25:17.067

<?php
  $vars = array(
    'http' => array(
      'user_agent' =>'whatever'));
  $context = stream_context_create($vars);
  libxml_set_streams_context($context);
  $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
  $xmlDoc->load("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=content&format=xml");

  print $xmlDoc->saveXML();
?>

Don't ask my why a user-agent is required, but I see more & more the same questions here on SO, which all can be fixed by supplying a User-Agent.

edit: The following would also work (it does here):

<?php
  ini_set('user_agent','whatever');
  $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
  $xmlDoc->load("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=content&format=xml");

  print $xmlDoc->saveXML();
?>

Perhaps a default setting in PHP for this user_agent has been changed?

Problem in Wikipedia API

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