Can't get your sample PHP to work

Posted about 6 years ago by webmastah

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webmastah

Hi there.

I just signed up for Crawlera because I saw just how simple your PHP sample script (https://support.scrapinghub.com/support/solutions/articles/22000203568-using-crawlera-with-php) was. However, I cannot get it to work. I keep getting this error message all the time:

cURL error: Failed connect to proxy.crawlera.com:8010; Connection refused

I have waited for provisioning to happen, copied my api key in the script and uploaded the crt file to the server and updated the path variable (CURLOPT_CAINFO) accordingly.

Still, the same error over and over again. In fact, I don't really know what's the correct way to replace the API KEY variable in the script:

$proxy_auth = '<API KEY>:';

I have tried all possible ways I can imagine:

$proxy_auth = 'myapikey';

$proxy_auth = 'myapikey:';

$proxy_auth = '<myapikey>:';

$proxy_auth = '<API KEY>:myapikey:';

I think this should be made clear somewhere. I can't seem to find any information about this.

Could anyone help me, please. Thanks in avance.

Cheers,

David

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nestor posted about 6 years ago Admin Best Answer

Check your firewall rules, port 8010 needs to be open as it is the port Crawlera serves.

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promoautotest posted about 4 years ago

I'm still facing problem after port open, can someone please help me for below error -

cURL error: Failed to connect to proxy.crawlera.com port 8010: Connection refused

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nestor posted about 6 years ago Admin

I'm glad you got it working :)

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webmastah posted about 6 years ago

By the way, Nestor. You were right. The problem was the firewall. As soon as I opened the port, it worked right away. Thank you!

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webmastah posted about 6 years ago

Thanks for your input, Nestor. I will give it a try!

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nestor posted about 6 years ago Admin Answer

Check your firewall rules, port 8010 needs to be open as it is the port Crawlera serves.

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