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Making HTTP GET queries with cURL in Laravel 10 provides a versatile and powerful approach to communicate with external APIs, retrieve data, and integrate third-party services into your application. cURL, a popular command-line utility and library, allows you to send HTTP requests and receive responses, making it an essential tool for web server connection.

The cURL stands for ‘Client for URLs‘, originally with URL spelled in uppercase to make it obvious that it deals with URLs. Since curl uses libcurl, it supports a range of common internal protocols, currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, and FILE.

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of making HTTP GET queries in Laravel 10 using cURL. In this section, we will look at how to configure cURL requests, add headers, handle query parameters, and process response data in your Laravel application.

Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Install “guzzlehttp/guzzle” Package

Open project into terminal run this command.

$ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

This package will install guzzlehttp and also updates composer.json file at project root.

"require": {
         //...
        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.2",
        //...
  },

Create Controller & Add HTTP cURL

Open project into terminal and run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:controller SiteController

It will create SiteController.php inside /app/Http/Controllers folder.

Open SiteController.php and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

class SiteController extends Controller
{
    public function index(): void
    {
        $apiURL = 'https://api.onlinewebtutorblog.com/employees';
  
        $response = Http::get($apiURL);
  
        $statusCode = $response->status();
        $responseBody = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
  
        dd($responseBody);
    }

    public function posts(): void
    {
        $apiURL = 'https://api.onlinewebtutorblog.com/employees';
              
        $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
        $response = $client->request('GET', $apiURL);
   
        $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode();
        $responseBody = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
  
        dd($responseBody);
    }
}

This controller includes two methods to process HTTP cURL request

Using HTTP
Using GuzzleHttp

You can opt any option to use it in your development.

Add Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add these routes into it.

//...

use App\Http\Controllers\SiteController;

Route::get("posts", [SiteController::class, "index"]);
Route::get("all-posts", [SiteController::class, "posts"]);

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

Example URL #1: http://127.0.0.1:8000/posts

Example URL #2: http://127.0.0.1:8000/all-posts

We hope this article helped you to learn Laravel 10 Http cURL Get Request Tutorial in a very detailed way.

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