Ubuntu terminal access a website every day

Question

I am working with a Webservice (SOAP + XML) that requires access every day on a link, I want to automate this service on my Ubuntu Server, I thought of using Lynx along with Crontab to access the link and then close, follow the Crontab code:

0 6 * * * lynx https://site.com/WebService
1 6 * * * killall lynx

So, access occurs every day, at the same time and after a minute it closes everything that exists of Lynx, the problem is that it does not work!

It accesses the link, but it’s as if "I didn’t activate the XML" of the page, so Webservice doesn’t work

The page code was developed in PHP and using Curl to call/run XML. If you access the link through a browser, it works perfectly

Is there any way to solve this? Or another method to automate this access?

Answer 1

Tried to use CURL directly? So:

0 6 * * * curl --silent https://site.com/WebService

A question? Do you need PHP to call the webservice? I mean unless you need to save something on the site, like passwords or downloaded data or send data from the site, you could access WS directly from the terminal, or create a PHP script on the same machine, of course I’m guessing all this, because I don’t know how you’re doing.

But if you don’t have any specific reason to use host the script on the site then you could do something like:

0 6 * * * php /home/meuusuario/scripts/webservice.php