convert string received via file_get_contents to JSON object

Asked Sep 24 '18 at 16:17

Active Sep 24 '18 at 16:43

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I need to scrape JSON data. Given link shows the scanned results in JSON format.

$json = file_get_contents('https://www.magereport.com/scan/result/?s=http://magento2-demo.nexcess.net/');
$obj = json_decode($json);

$obj is NULL always. Is it possible this way?

output of echo $json is in this pic.

edited Sep 24 '18 at 16:43

dhilmathy

asked Sep 24 '18 at 16:17

Danish Hasan

Its possible... if what you are getting is actually json. Show us an example of what comes from `echo $json;`? – IncredibleHat Sep 24 '18 at 16:20
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That URL doesn't return JSON – iainn Sep 24 '18 at 16:21
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Possible duplicate of [Detect bad json data in PHP json\_decode()?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2348152/detect-bad-json-data-in-php-json-decode) – MonkeyZeus Sep 24 '18 at 16:21
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That output isn't one JSON string, it's many of them concatenated together, and there's no record separator. You'll have to split the string by balancing braces. – Alex Howansky Sep 24 '18 at 16:25
@iainn thank you. I didn't know it. – Danish Hasan Sep 24 '18 at 16:32
@MonkeyZeus No it isn't here we are talking about fetching string from URL. – Danish Hasan Sep 24 '18 at 16:33
@AlexHowansky okay thanks for the help. But can you please enlighten me, please. – Danish Hasan Sep 24 '18 at 16:34

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