Doing HTTP requests FROM Laravel to an external API

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What I want is get an object from an API with a HTTP  eg  jQuery s AJAX  request to an external api  How do I start  I did research on Mr Google but I can t find anything helping   Im starting to wonder is this is even possible  In this post Laravel 4 make post request from controller to external url with data it looks like it can be done  But there s no example nor any source where to find some documentation   Please help me out

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Updated on March 21 2019 Add GuzzleHttp package using composer require guzzlehttp guzzle  6 3 3 Or you can specify Guzzle as a dependency in your project s composer json       quot require quot            quot guzzlehttp guzzle quot    quot  6 3 3 quot          Include below line in the top of the class where you are calling the API use GuzzleHttp Client   Add below code for making the request  client   new Client      res    client- gt request  POST    http   www exmple com mydetails          form params    gt             name    gt   george              if   res- gt getStatusCode      200       200 OK      response data    res- gt getBody  - gt getContents

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You just want to call an external URL and use the results  PHP does this out of the box  if we re talking about a simple GET request to something serving JSON    json   json decode file get contents  http   host com api stuff 1    true     If you want to do a post request  it s a little harder but there s loads of examples how to do this with curl    So I guess the question is  what exactly do you want

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As of Laravel v7 X  the framework now comes with a minimal API wrapped around the Guzzle HTTP client  It provides an easy way to make get  post  put  patch  and delete requests using the HTTP Client    use Illuminate Support Facades Http    response   Http  get  http   test com     response   Http  post  http   test com     response   Http  put  http   test com     response   Http  patch  http   test com     response   Http  delete  http   test com      You can manage responses using the set of methods provided by the Illuminate Http Client Response instance returned    response- gt body     string   response- gt json     array   response- gt status     int   response- gt ok     bool   response- gt successful     bool   response- gt serverError     bool   response- gt clientError     bool   response- gt header  header    string   response- gt headers     array    Please note that you will  of course  need to install Guzzle like so   composer require guzzlehttp guzzle   There are a lot more helpful features built-in and you can find out more about these set of the feature here  https   laravel com docs 7 x http-client  This is definitely now the easiest way to make external API calls within Laravel

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Definitively  for any PHP project  you may want to use GuzzleHTTP for sending requests  Guzzle has very nice documentation you can check here  I just want to say that  you probably want to centralize the usage of the Client class of Guzzle in any component of your Laravel project  for example a trait  instead of being creating Client instances on several controllers and components of Laravel  as many articles and replies suggest    I created a trait you can try to use  which allows you to send requests from any component of your Laravel project  just using it and calling to makeRequest   namespace App Traits  use GuzzleHttp Client  trait ConsumesExternalServices                  Send a request to any service         return string             public function makeRequest  method   requestUrl   queryParams        formParams        headers        hasFile   false                 client   new Client                base uri    gt   this- gt baseUri                        bodyType    form params            if   hasFile                 bodyType    multipart                multipart                    foreach   formParams as  name   gt   contents                     multipart                            name    gt   name                       contents    gt   contents                                                      response    client- gt request  method   requestUrl                 query    gt   queryParams               bodyType   gt   hasFile    multipart    formParams               headers    gt   headers                        response    response- gt getBody  - gt getContents             return  response            Notice this trait can even handle files sending   If you want more details about this trait and some other stuff to integrate this trait to Laravel  check this article  Additionally  if interested in this topic or need major assistance  you can take my course which guides you in the whole process   I hope it helps all of you   Best wishes

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We can use package Guzzle in Laravel  it is a PHP HTTP client to send HTTP requests   You can install Guzzle through composer  composer require guzzlehttp guzzle  6 0   Or you can specify Guzzle as a dependency in your project s existing composer json        require            guzzlehttp guzzle     6 0           Example code in laravel 5 using Guzzle as shown below   use GuzzleHttp Client  class yourController extends Controller        public function saveApiData                  client   new Client             res    client- gt request  POST    https   url to the api                  form params    gt                     client id    gt   test id                    secret    gt   test secret                                     echo  res- gt getStatusCode               200         echo  res- gt getHeader  content-type                application json  charset utf8          echo  res- gt getBody                 type   User

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Basic Solution for Laravel 8 is use Illuminate Support Facades Http    response   Http  get  http   example com     I had conflict between  quot GuzzleHTTP sending requests quot  and  quot Illuminate Http Request  quot  don t ask me why     it s here to be searchable  So looking for 1sec i found in Laravel 8 Doc       Guzzle is inside the Laravel 8 Http Request     https   laravel com docs 8 x http-client making-requests as you can see https   laravel com docs 8 x http-client introduction  Laravel provides an expressive  minimal API around the Guzzle HTTP client  allowing you to quickly make outgoing HTTP requests to communicate with other web applications  Laravel s wrapper around Guzzle is focused on its most common use cases and a wonderful developer experience   It worked for me very well  have fun and if helpful point up

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You can use Httpful    Website   http   phphttpclient com   Github   https   github com nategood httpful

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Based upon an answer of a similar question here  https   stackoverflow com a 22695523 1412268  Take a look at Guzzle   client   new GuzzleHttp Client     res    client- gt get  https   api github com user     auth    gt     user    pass      echo  res- gt getStatusCode       200 echo  res- gt getBody          type    User

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