Add wrapper around running curl (runCurl)

MD_STD.php

@@ -115,4 +115,31 @@ public static function startsWithAny(string $haystack, array $needles):bool {
 
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Wrapper for curling contents from the web.
+     *
+     * @param string  $url     URL to query.
+     * @param integer $timeout Timeout in milliseconds.
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public static function runCurl(string $url, int $timeout = 1200):string {
+
+        $curl = curl_init();
+
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, $timeout); //timeout in seconds
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, $timeout);        //timeout in seconds
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'md-bot/1.0');
+        $result = curl_exec($curl);
+
+        curl_close($curl);
+        if (is_bool($result)) return "";
+        return $result;
+
+    }
+
 }