How to use Nominatim API through PHP

It's a more general version of the topic How to use Nominatim API through PHP to retrieve latitude and longitude? which was asked in June 2017.

Currently, I just get an empty response. Is it still possible to use the API with PHP file_get_contents?

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Example API call

https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=grindelwald&countryCodes=CH&addressdetails=1&format=json

source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77788557/how-to-use-nominatim-api-through-php