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Asked: 2026-06-17T16:42:39+00:00

I’m using Reddit’s API to get votes count for a given URL (I’m doing

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I’m using Reddit’s API to get votes count for a given URL (I’m doing that like this, http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=$url). I’m always getting Error 500 message. I give you a snippet of my code below. Anyone can help me?

$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,15);     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent); 
$content = curl_exec($ch);
echo $content;
curl_close($ch);

Echo is always returning me the next line.

<html><body><h1>500 Server Error</h1>An internal server error occured.</body></html>

Thanks for reading.

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It is working locally.

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    $useragent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1″;

    reddit’s API rules state the following about user agents:

    • Change your client’s User-Agent string to something unique and descriptive, preferably referencing your reddit username.
      • Example: User-Agent: super happy flair bot v1.0 by /u/spladug
      • Many default User-Agents (like “Python/urllib” or “Java”) are drastically limited to encourage unique and descriptive user-agent strings.
      • If you’re making an application for others to use, please include a version number in the user agent. This allows us to block buggy versions without blocking all versions of your app.
      • NEVER lie about your user-agent. This includes spoofing popular browsers and spoofing other bots. We will ban liars with extreme prejudice.

    That doesn’t explain the 500 error, nevertheless, this is where I’d start if the same URL works just fine when you use your browser. If you are getting 500 errors when also using your browser, then you probably aren’t using the info API correctly (and consequently found a bug).

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