api/maryland_voter.php

   1 <?PHP
   2 ini_set('display_errors', 1);
   3 ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
   4 error_reporting(E_ALL);
   5
   6 function cut_part_out($start,$end,$whole){
   7   $parts = explode($start,$whole);
   8   $subparts = explode($end,$parts[1]);
   9   $out = $subparts[0];
  10   return $out;
  11 }
  12
  13 function getPage($url,$cookie=''){
  14   $url = str_replace('[month]',date('F'),$url); // replace month January through December
  15   $url = str_replace('[day]',date('j'),$url); // replace day 1 to 31
  16   $url = str_replace('[yesterday]',date('j',strtotime('yesterday')),$url); // replace day 1 to 31
  17   $url = str_replace('[year]',date('Y'),$url); // replace year Examples: 1999 or 2003
  18   $curl = curl_init();
  19   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  20   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, sprintf("McGuire MEPS https://www.md-petition.com/ /%d.0",rand(4,50)));
  21   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  22   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
  23   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
  24   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
  25   if ($cookie != ''){
  26     curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=$cookie")); // use cookies
  27   }
  28   /*
  29   $postfields = array(
  30     'upload_file' => '@file_to_upload.png',
  31     'upload_text' => '@text_to_upload'
  32   );
  33   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields);
  34   */
  35   $html = curl_exec ($curl);
  36   curl_close ($curl);
  37   return $html;
  38 }
  39
  40 // start a session to get a cookie
  41 $form['url']  = 'https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch';
  42 $form['html'] = getPage($form['url']);
  43
  44 // extract the cookie from the header (see CURLOPT_HEADER)
  45 $cookie = cut_part_out('ASP.NET_SessionId=',';',$form['html']);
  46 $VIEWSTATE = cut_part_out('id="__VIEWSTATE" value="','"',$form['html']);
  47 // Found Form Elements
  48 //__VIEWSTATE
  49 //__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR
  50 //__VIEWSTATEENCRYPTED
  51 //__EVENTVALIDATION
  52 //ctl00$MainContent$listLanguages = en
  53
  54 // debug - show full response make sure we have the cookie
  55 echo "<li>COOKIE ASP.NET_SessionId $cookie</li>";
  56 echo "<li>POST VIEWSTATE $VIEWSTATE</li>";
  57
  58 echo htmlspecialchars($form['html']);
  59 echo '<hr><h1>Rendered</h1>';
  60 echo $form['html'];