Download flurry event log using curl

Question

I started to use Flurry Analytics and have found that it's analysing tools are insufficient and too slow. Simple funnel of 3 steps was processed for 3 days, while normally query with 3 left joins take 0,001 seconds on table with 100,000 rows.

Flurry allows to download raw event data in csv format on Event Logs page, so I decided to import all the events and analyze them at home.

Flurry allows to download only 100,000 records, and they advise just to download often to fit this limit. They had raw event download API but abandoned it for some reason. So the only way is to go to Event Logs page and download events data manually. But as you can imagine it is very annoying.

So I decided to get this data using curl in php. I've copied the GET HTTP request to download link with headers and got the data. But the whole magic is in session/cookies which I can just copy from existing session. So to make curl query succeed I have to:

1. go to flurry site in browser and login
2. go to Event Logs page, choose time frame parameters and click download
3. copy request headers in sniffer
4. paste them to my php code
5. and from now on I can make this query in php until session cookies expire

I'm not sure but suppose cookies will expire on the next day, so the whole this effort is useless.

As I understand I should try to POST login with curl, and keeping this connection perform GET to download data. Yet I can not login even copying the whole POST login request body - it answers with the same login page although should 302 redirect to https://dev.flurry.com/fullPageTakeover.do?originalTarget=&isFirstPostLogin=true&defaultTarget=%2Fhome.do

It looks like flurry is somehow protected from such curl reading. Or maybe somebody succeed in it?

Here's the code:

    $cookie_file_path = "cookies.txt";
    $LOGINURL         = "https://dev.flurry.com/secure/login.do";
    $MY_EMAIL ="my email";
    $MY_PASS="password";
    $MY_GAME_ID="gameid";

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,  0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6");
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $LOGINURL);


    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $LOGINURL);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "loginEmail=$MY_EMAIL&loginPassword=$MY_PASS&__checkbox_rememberMe=true&struts.token.name=struts.token&struts.token=7NB9NWLOYZ8SD8TWR8LGS63REVDI8SQS");

    $result = curl_exec($ch);


    $remotePageUrl = "https://dev.flurry.com/eventsLogCsv.do?projectID=$MY_GAME_ID&versionCut=versionsAll&intervalCut=7Days&stream=true&direction=1&offset=0";
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $remotePageUrl);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    echo $result;

Also tried to pass cookies (like it does from browser), but nothing helped:

Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.100867533.1424333566; S0hZTkM0RFRXRjJNSlg2TVdXSEs_fit=1424333594147; fid=SG1162A8DEFC14B8428E7C2AFC71D3AEA00C1872F5; JSESSIONID=w34~mvbdvftm9x9dez9dg9b2pmhs; _map_zoomLevel=0;
_map_zoneId=0; __utmt=1; __utmt_~1=1; S0hZTkM0RFRXRjJNSlg2TVdXSEs_fs=eyJiYSI6MTQyNDMzNzkzMzU2OCwicGF1c2VUaW1lc3RhbXAiOjAsImJjIjotMSwiZXZlbnRDb3VudGVyIjowLCJwdXJjaGFzZUNvdW50ZXIiOjAsImVycm9yQ291bnRlciI6MCwidGltZWRFdmVudHMiOltdfQ==;
__utma=83277827.100867533.1424333566.1424333594.1424336847.2; __utmb=83277827.8.10.1424336847; __utmc=83277827; __utmz=83277827.1424333594.1.1.utmcsr=flurry.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/; __utma=34058230.100867533.1424333566.1424333566.1424336847.2; __utmb=34058230.8.10.1424336847; __utmc=34058230; __utmz=34058230.1424333566.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); _mkto_trk=id:802-TBR-126&token:_mch-flurry.com-1424333577360-64839; S0hZTkM0RFRXRjJNSlg2TVdXSEs_flp=1424338032448

Thanks to silkfire Flurry problem is solved!

Answer 1

The struts.token is a CRSF token which is bound to your session and regenerated on each page load. In your code though, it's static. You need to fetch it after your first cURL request and then inject it into your POST array to be used for your second request.

Also the page you have to login to is /loginAction.do and not /login.do.

This is how I successfully logged in to Flurry:

$post = [
         'loginEmail'        => 'E-MAIL',
         'loginPassword'     => 'PASSWORD',
         'struts.token.name' => 'struts.token'
        ];

$ch = curl_init('https://dev.flurry.com/secure/login.do');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, null);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
$dom->loadHTML(curl_exec($ch));

$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);


$post['struts.token'] = $xpath->query('//input[@name="struts.token"]')->item(0)->getAttribute('value');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://dev.flurry.com/secure/loginAction.do');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post));

$data = curl_exec($ch);


echo $data;