How to consume APIs inside Laravel?

If you want to fetch, save, crawl, or fire a one-time request to a remote server that exposes API, there are a variety of options for Laravel. An example use-case would be updating the IMDB rating for a batch of movies and series for your film listing web application.

The popular ones are:

Things to keep in mind…

Heads Up! if the API you are going to consume in your application is well-known and complex, there is a high chance that someone else has already developed a library to just work with that API, like this Laravel package by Mustapha Alaouy that specifically calls YouTube API.