Laravel 9 Http cURL Get Request Tutorial

Inside this article we will see the concept of Laravel 9 Http cURL Get Request Tutorial. We will see by both using Http GET and GuzzleHttp of laravel to process JSON data.

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.

This article is very easy to learn and implement in your development. We will look at example of laravel curl get request. Concept is useful when you work with APIs and use HTTP GET request. Here, we will consider a fake api url and try to fetch data from it.

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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 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
{
    /**
     * Using Http
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $apiURL = 'https://api.onlinewebtutorblog.com/employees';
  
        $response = Http::get($apiURL);
  
        $statusCode = $response->status();
        $responseBody = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
  
        dd($responseBody);
    }

    /**
     * Using GuzzleHttp
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function posts()
    {
        $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 and 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 9 Http cURL Get Request Tutorial in a very detailed way.

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