google-alerts-api-php

This API Client is still WIP and only allows access to the CREATE and DELETE endpoints for Google Alerts.

Thanks to github.com/adasq/google-alerts-api for developing a NodeJS version

A Google Alerts API that allows you to create Google Alerts via PHP and have them delievered to a RSS feed.

The API currently only supports

creating alerts
Removing alerts

Usage

NOTICE: Login via password and email is not possible (yet?) because google has changed their auth procedure. Only login with pre-defined cookies is working. See below for example

Copy the GoogleAlert.php class and the config.php from google-alerts-api/GoogleAlert.php into your project folder.

Edit the config.php and enter your base64 encoded cookies. (See below for an explanation)

(See google-alerts-api/example.php for a working example)

  // creating a Google Alert object
  $ga = new GoogleAlert();

  /*
    creating a new google alert

    params      default-value     explanation

    $query      *none* required  name/title/query for the alert
    $lang       'en'              language of the alert results; 'en', 'de', 'ru'..
    $frequency  'happens'         how often new items should be delievered to the feed
    $type       'all'             type of source for new feed items. All includes blogs, news, etc.
    $quantity   'best'            returns only best results
  */

  /*
    creates the alert and returns the feed and the googleid
    (googleid is needed incase you want to delete an alert using the script)
  */
  $alert = $ga->create("Satoshi Nakamoto");
  echo json_encode($alert);

  /*
  {
    "rss": "https://www.google.de/alerts/feeds/somerssfeed/123",  // rssfeed:   articles will be delivered to this feed
    "googleid": "12341234b12341:a112341239364456:com:de:DE"       // googleid:  needed to delete and modify alerts
  }
*/

Deleting an alert by id

  // deleting a Google Alert object
  $ga = new GoogleAlert();
  $ga->delete("12341234b12341:a112341239364456:com:de:DE");

Generating cookies:

Cookies need to be pre-generated. Once you authenticated and logged in using your browser you can easily copy the cookies and save them in the config.php.

Logging in using the browser

Open Chrome in Incognito mode and login into http://myaccount.google.com using the account you want to use.

Copy SID, HSDI and SSID

Open dev tools
Go to Application and select Cookies for http://myaccount.google.com
Copy SID, HSID and SSID values

Turn your cookies into a base64 encoded auth string

Fill your cookie values into the given JSON object

window.btoa(
  JSON.stringify([
    {
      key: "SID",
      value: "",
      domain: "google.com",
    },
    {
      key: "HSID",
      value: "",
      domain: "google.com",
    },
    {
      key: "SSID",
      value: "",
      domain: "google.com",
    },
  ])
);

Copy this code into the Console of your borwser and execute it
Copy the output (your auth string) into the config.php

Make sure to enable "login from insecure apps" if having any issues connecting

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