Log in to cPanel through CURL

I am using above script to login through cpanel using curl. But it always gives login invalid. Neither it creates cookie file on path given. Any Idea how to connect through cpanel using curl or any settings that need to be done. I do not have whm login as I am on shared hosting.


$cp_user = "$cpanel_user";
$cp_pwd = "$cpanel_passwd";
$url = "https://example.com:2083/login";
$cookies = "/path to save your cookie/cookies.txt";


// Create new curl handle
$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookies );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookies); // Save cookies to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "user=$cp_user&pass=$cp_pwd");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100020);

// Execute the curl handle and fetch info then close streams.
$f = curl_exec($ch);
$h = curl_getinfo($ch);
//curl_close($ch);
//$result = curl_exec($curl);
    if ($f == false) {
        error_log("curl_exec threw error \"" . curl_error($curl) . "\" for $query");
                                                        // log error if curl exec fails
        //print_r("curl_exec threw error \"" . curl_error($curl) . "\" for $query");
    }
    
    // print_r($f);
if ($f == true and strpos($h['url'>,"cpsess"))
{
    // Get the cpsess part of the url
    $pattern="/.*?(\/cpsess.*?)\/.*?/is";
    $preg_res=preg_match($pattern,$h['url'>,$cpsess);
}
$token=$cpsess[1];
curl_close($ch);
return $token;

cPanelMichael

December 17, 2018 19:10

Hello @rccaj, We document some examples you can follow at: Guide to API Authentication - Secure Remote Logins - Developer Documentation - cPanel Documentation Guide to API Authentication - Username and Password Authentication - Developer Documentation - cPanel Documentation Can you let me know if this helps? Thank you.

rccaj

December 19, 2018 10:58

Hi @cPanelMichael I am looking for solution where i am just on shared hosting and can validate cpanel token key and get logged in through curl and my php script could work and this is mainly for creating aliases.

December 19, 2018 17:05

Hello @rccaj, There's a PHP example documented on the link below that makes use of cURL. You'd just need to update the script for the cPanel login instead of WHM.

Log in to cPanel through CURL

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