File_get_contents lead time if too long

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And here is an example of how to create a php function to replace file_get_contents:

<?php

$clientID = array(
‘Client-ID: 0000000000000000000000000000000’
);

function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);       
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $clientID);

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

return $data;

}

$apiCALL = json_decode(@file_get_contents_curl(‘https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/matt_thomas/follows?limit=1’), true);
$follower = $apiCALL[‘follows’][‘0’][‘user’][‘name’];
echo $follower;

?>