 <p>maybe you can use curl:</p> <pre><code>$url = 'http://vgmdb.info/album/79?format=json'; // $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0' ); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); $json = json_decode($response); //result echo 'price: '.$json-&gt;release_price-&gt;price; </code></pre> <p>The response give you one object like:</p> <pre><code>//part of object "release_date": "1999-11-20", "release_events": [], "release_price": { "currency": "JPY", "price": 2854.0 }, </code></pre>