Create Google Alert and grab the feed.

A.README

Google alerts is a way to manage your content by subscribing to keywords. Here is an example on how to make that google alert with php.

Get the feed url and parse the feed. There won't be any feed available as soon the alert is created.

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Copy composer.json and do composer update.

Add this to providers

    		'Awjudd\FeedReader\FeedReaderServiceProvider', 

Add this to aliases

            	'FeedReader'      => 'Awjudd\FeedReader\Facades\FeedReader',

Add route to routes.php.

Copy GAlerts.php in app/helpers folder. 

Then make app/start/global.php look like following:

ClassLoader::addDirectories(array(

	app_path().'/commands',
	app_path().'/controllers',
	app_path().'/models',
	app_path().'/database/seeds',
	app_path().'/helpers',

));

B.composer.json

{
	"name": "laravel/laravel",
	"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
	"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
	"license": "MIT",
	"require": {
		"laravel/framework": "4.1.*",
		"simplepie/simplepie": "dev-master",
		"awjudd/feed-reader": "dev-master"
	},
	"autoload": {
		"classmap": [
			"app/commands",
			"app/controllers",
			"app/models",
			"app/database/migrations",
			"app/database/seeds",
			"app/tests/TestCase.php"
		]
	},
	"scripts": {
		"post-install-cmd": [
			"php artisan clear-compiled",
			"php artisan optimize"
		],
		"post-update-cmd": [
			"php artisan clear-compiled",
			"php artisan optimize"
		],
		"post-create-project-cmd": [
			"php artisan key:generate"
		]
	},
	"config": {
		"preferred-install": "dist"
	},
	"minimum-stability": "stable"
}

C.routes.php

<?php 

Route::get('galert',function(){

	$Ga = new GAlerts();

	$result = $Ga->createAlert('A R Rahman');

        var_dump($result);

	$feed = FeedReader::read($result);

	foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item) {

		echo '<pre>';
		echo $item->get_link().'<br>';
		echo $item->get_title().'<br>';
		echo $item->get_description().'<br>';
		echo $item->get_date().'<br>';
		echo $item->get_id().'<br>';
		echo $item->get_feed().'<br>';
		echo '</pre>';
		echo '<br>';

		$result = explode('?q=',$item->get_link())[1];

		$result = explode('&',$result)[0];
 		
 		echo $result;

 		echo file_get_contents($result);

		echo '<br>-----------------------------------------<br>';

	}


});

D.GAlerts.php

<?php

		// --- GOOGLE ACCOUNT SETTINGS -------------------------


	define( 'GOOGLE_USERNAME', 'mygoogleemail@gmail.com' );
	define( 'GOOGLE_PASSWORD', 'supersecretpassword');


	// --- ALERT SETTINGS ----------------------------------


	// alert frequency ( how often you recieve emails )
	//	- as it happens: 0
	//	- daily: 1
	//	- weekly: 6
	define( 'ALERT_FREQUENCY', 0 );

	// result type ( what to seaerch )
	//	- everything: 7
	//	- discussions: 8
	//	- news: 1
	//	- blogs: 4
	//	- video: 9
	//	- books: 22
	define( 'ALERT_RESULT_TYPE', 7 );

	// result quality filter
	//	- best results: 0
	//	- all results: 1
	define( 'ALERT_QUALITY', 0 );


	// --- CURL SETTINGS ----------------------------------


	define( 'GOOGLE_COOKIEFILE', 'cookies.txt' );

	class GAlerts
	{
		
		public function createAlert( $search ) {
	
	        $ch = curl_init();
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, GOOGLE_COOKIEFILE);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, GOOGLE_COOKIEFILE);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 120);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);
	
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
	        'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?hl=en&service=alerts&continue=http://www.google.com/alerts/manage');
	        $data = curl_exec($ch);
	
	        $formFields = $this->getFormFields( $data );
	
	        $formFields['Email']  = GOOGLE_USERNAME;
	        $formFields['Passwd'] = GOOGLE_PASSWORD;
	        unset($formFields['PersistentCookie']);
	
	        $post_string = '';
	        foreach($formFields as $key => $value) {
	        	$post_string .= $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
	        }
	
	        $post_string = substr($post_string, 0, -1);
	
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth');
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
	
	        $result = curl_exec($ch);
	
	        if (strpos($result, '<title>Redirecting') === false) {
	            var_dump($result);
	            die("Login failed");
	        } else {

	            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/alerts');
	            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
	            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, null);
	
	            $result = curl_exec($ch);
	
	            // Create alert
	
	            preg_match('/<input type="hidden" name="x" value="([^"]+)"/', $result, $matches);
	
	            $post = array(
	                "x" => $matches[1],			// anti-XSRF key
	                "q" => $search,				// Search term  
	                "t" => ALERT_RESULT_TYPE,	// Result type: 7-everything, 8-discussions
	                "f" => ALERT_FREQUENCY,		// Frequency: 0: as it happens, 1: daily, 6: weekly
	                "l" => ALERT_QUALITY,		// All results: 1, best results: 0
	                "e" => "feed"		// Type of delivery: rss: "feed"
	            );
	
	            $post_string = '';
	
	            foreach($post as $key => $value) {
	                $post_string .= $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
	            }
	
	            $post_string = substr($post_string, 0, -1);
				
	            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/alerts/create');
	            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
	
	            $result = curl_exec($ch);

	            $matches = array();
	            preg_match('#<a href="(http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/[\d/]+)"#', $result, $matches);
	
	            $top_alert = $matches[1];
	
	            return $top_alert;
	        }
	    }
	
	
	    private function getFormFields($data)
	    {
	        if (preg_match('/(<form.*?id=.?gaia_loginform.*?<\/form>)/is', $data, $matches)) {
	            $inputs = $this->getInputs($matches[1]);
	
	            return $inputs;
	        } else {
	            die("didn't find login form");
	        }
	    }
	
	    private function getInputs($form)
	    {
	        $inputs = array();
	
	        $elements = preg_match_all('/(<input[^>]+>)/is', $form, $matches);
	
	        if ($elements > 0) {
	            for($i = 0; $i < $elements; $i++) {
	                $el = preg_replace('/\s{2,}/', ' ', $matches[1][$i]);
	
	                if (preg_match('/name=(?:["\'])?([^"\'\s]*)/i', $el, $name)) {
	                    $name  = $name[1];
	                    $value = '';
	
	                    if (preg_match('/value=(?:["\'])?([^"\'\s]*)/i', $el, $value)) {
	                        $value = $value[1];
	                    }
	
	                    $inputs[$name] = $value;
	                }
	            }
	        }
	
	        return $inputs;
	    }

	} // end class	    

?>

is this production ready?

http://www.google.com/alerts/create

This url does not exit. It should also be https:

I believe curl won't work as the site looks to be Ajax.

Hi @rajivseelam and @theodis, This code is not working for me (error always: login failed). Do you have same problem?

Agree with @djeraseit