#pnrapi

It may seem frustrating to know, but there is no official API of the railway PNR status. If you are searching of an API, you won’t be getting success. This is totally waste of time, like to throw the stone in the air.

However their are some languages that can fetch the data from the opened page in the browser. I’m talking about the reading data of an internet page programmatically, which can be used for fetching the data from Indian railway website. Some of these languages are as follows:

Python PHP cURL

Let’s get started with PHP cURL, which is a well known source for reading the data from an Internet page.

When you search Your PNR status through Indian Railway website, You may have seen a captcha for preventing the spammers. You just need to bypass this captcha and hit that page programmatically, which will open the current status and you can read that all result data with php cURL.

Here is the example that can be used to bypass the captcha

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$url_captch

=

'http://www.indianrail.gov.in/pnr_Enq.html'

;

$url_pnr

=

'http://www.indianrail.gov.in/cgi_bin/inet_pnstat_cgi_10521.cgi'

;

// Submit the captcha and PNR

$post_data

[

'lccp_cap_val'

] = 12345;

//dummy captcha

$post_data

[

'lccp_capinp_val'

] = 12345;

$post_data

[

'submit'

] =

"Get Status"

;

$post_string

= createPostString(

$post_data

);

$result

= makeWebCall(

$url_pnr

,

$post_string

,

$url_captch

);