Utilise the Guzzle HTTP client from within your Craft templates.

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later.

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require jalendport/craft-fetch
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Fetch.

This plugin is built to work with the standard Guzzle request options

{% set client = {
    base_uri : 'https://gtmetrix.com',
    timeout : 10
} %}

{% set options = {
    auth : ['username', 'password'],
    form_params : {
      url : 'https://www.google.co.uk'
    }
} %}

{% set request = fetch(client, 'POST', 'api/0.1/test', options) %}

{
   "statusCode":200,
   "reason":"OK",
   "body": {
      "credits_left":30,
      "test_id":"JDHFbrt7",
      "poll_state_url":"https:\/\/gtmetrix.com\/api\/0.1\/test\/JDHFbrt7"
   }
}

You can fetch the string response by adding an additional parameter of false like so:

{% set request = fetch(client, 'POST', 'api/0.1/test', options, false) %}

{
   "error":true,
   "reason":"Client error: `POST https:\/\/gtmetrix.com\/api\/0.1\/test` resulted in a `401 Authorization Required` response:\n{\u0022error\u0022:\u0022Invalid e-mail and\/or API key\u0022}\n\n"
}

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

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