Download video from Pixabay using PHP

download.php

<?php		
/**
* Downloads the publicly accessible videos.
* This is just a basic demo, can be improved with proper file handling.
*
* @param string $video_url Video URL.
* @param string $referer Referer site.
*/

function download_video( $video_url, $referer ) {

  $video_name = basename( $video_url );
  $video_path = '/' . $video_name; // Path to downloads folder.

		try {
			$ch = curl_init($video_url);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
				'Origin: ' . $referer,
				'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
			]);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

			$video = curl_exec($ch);
			if (curl_errno($ch)) {
				throw new Exception('Error: ' . curl_error($ch));
			} else {
				$file = fopen($video_path, 'w');
				if ($file === false) {
					throw new Exception('Failed to open file for writing.');
				}
				fwrite($file, $video);
				fclose($file);
				echo "Video downloaded successfully.";
			}
			curl_close($ch);
		} catch (Exception $e) {
			echo $e->getMessage();
		}
}

/**
* How to use it?
*/

download_video( 'https://cdn.pixabay.com/video/2022/11/22/140111-774507949_large.mp4', 'https://pixabay.com/' );