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37. Calling External APIs with HTTP Client

Consuming third-party services.

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Laravel's Http facade wraps Guzzle to provide an expressive, fluent syntax for making outgoing HTTP requests: Http::get(), Http::post(), and Http::withToken(). It supports retries, timeouts, and fakes (Http::fake()) for testing without hitting real endpoints. This is the standard way to call third-party REST APIs or webhooks from within Laravel.

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