PHP - How to send a Pushbullet push

In this page I provide you with PHP scripts in order to send a Pushbullet's push. Please take note of the following requirements:

• to execute these scripts on a router (Asus RT-AC56U), we need some Entware's packages, so refer to this page on how to install Entware on a router - these scripts have been tested using PHP release 7.2.9;
• to execute these scripts on Microsoft Windows, we need to pass some additional libraries through the command line (or eventually changing the PHP settings) - these scripts have been tested using PHP release 5.6.36;
• we need the Pushbullet's "Access Token", we can retrieve it inside Pushbullet account settings. We must insert the above-mentioned "access token" inside each script in variable "$token".

For further details about Pushbullet's API, refer to this page.

Sending a push "Note"

To execute this script, please take note of the following requirements:

• on a router (Asus RT-AC56U), we need some Entware's packages, so execute this command line "opkg install php7-cli php7-mod-curl php7-mod-json". We must execute this script using the command "php-cli";
• on Microsoft Windows, we have to change the file "PHP.INI" in line ";extension=php_curl.dll" (remove the semi-colon to make the library available); otherwise we must call the PHP interpreter via command line using the parameter "-d extension=php_curl.dll";

<?php

$token = '[token]';
$body  = "My body";
$title = "My Title";

$ch = curl_init();

$postdata = json_encode([
             "type" => "note",
             "body" => $body,
             "title" => $title,
             ]);

$header = array();
$header[] = "Access-Token: " . $token;
$header[] = "Content-Type: application/json";

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

print_r($result);
print_r("\r\n\r\n");

curl_close($ch);
?>

 

Sending a push "Link"

To execute this script, please take note of the following requirements:

• on a router (Asus RT-AC56U), we need some Entware's packages, so execute this command line "opkg install php7-cli php7-mod-curl php7-mod-json". We must execute this script using the command "php-cli";
• on Microsoft Windows, we have to change the file "PHP.INI" in line ";extension=php_curl.dll" (remove the semi-colon to make the library available); otherwise we must call the PHP interpreter via command line using the parameter "-d extension=php_curl.dll";

<?php

$token = '[token]';
$body  = "My body";
$title = "My Title";
$link  = "http://www.google.com";

$ch = curl_init();

$postdata = json_encode([
             "type" => "link",
             "body" => $body,
             "title" => $title,
             "url"  => $link,
             ]);

$header = array();
$header[] = "Access-Token: " . $token;
$header[] = "Content-Type: application/json";

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

print_r($result);
print_r("\r\n\r\n");

curl_close($ch);
?>

 

Sending a push "File"

To send a file, there are two ways. In the first way, we must have a file already available. In the second way, we have to retrieve a file from Internet.
The following script, retrieves a file already in the same folder of the script. To execute this script, please take note of the following requirements:

• on a router (Asus RT-AC56U), we need some Entware's packages, so execute this command line "opkg install php7-cli php7-mod-curl php7-mod-json php7-mod-fileinfo". We must execute this script using the command "php-cli";
• on Microsoft Windows, we have to change the file "PHP.INI" in lines ";extension=php_curl.dll" and ";extension=php_fileinfo.dll" (remove the semi-colon to make the libraries available); otherwise we must call the PHP interpreter via command line using the parameters "-d extension=php_curl.dll -d extension=php_fileinfo.dll";

<?php

$token  = '[token]';
$fname  = "picture.jpg";
$body   = "My body";
$title  = "My Title";

$ftype = mime_content_type($fname);

$ch = curl_init();

$header = array();
$header[] = "Access-Token: " . $token;
$header[] = "Content-Type: application/json";

$postdata = json_encode([
             "file_name" => $fname,
             "file_type" => $ftype,
             ]);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/upload-request");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$obj = json_decode($result);
$file_name  = $obj->{'file_name'};
$file_url   = $obj->{'file_url'};
$file_type  = $obj->{'file_type'};
$upload_url = $obj->{'upload_url'};

$ch = curl_init();

$data['file'] = new CurlFile(realpath($fname), $ftype);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $upload_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$postdata2 = json_encode([
             "type" => "file",
             "body" => $body,
             "title" => $title,
             "file_name" => $file_name,
             "file_type" => $file_type,
             "file_url"  => $file_url,
             ]);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata2);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
?>

The following script, retrieves a file from Internet. To execute this script, please take note of the following requirements:

• on a router (Asus RT-AC56U), we need some Entware's packages, so execute this command line "opkg install php7-cli php7-mod-curl php7-mod-json". We must execute this script using the command "php-cli";
• on Microsoft Windows, we have to change the file "PHP.INI" in line ";extension=php_curl.dll" (remove the semi-colon to make the library available); otherwise we must call the PHP interpreter via command line using the parameter "-d extension=php_curl.dll";

<?php

$token  = '[token]';
$body   = "My body";
$title  = "My Title";
$fname  = "pexels.jpg";
$furl   = "https://images.pexels.com/photos/1681148/pexels-photo-1681148.jpeg";
$ftype  = "image/jpeg";

$header = array();
$header[] = "Access-Token: " . $token;
$header[] = "Content-Type: application/json";

$postdata = json_encode([
             "type" => "file",
             "body" => $body,
             "title" => $title,
             "file_name" => $fname,
             "file_type" => $ftype,
             "file_url"  => $furl,
             ]);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

print_r($result);
print_r("\r\n\r\n");

curl_close($ch);
?>