Fetch plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Utilise the Guzzle HTTP client from within your Craft templates.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later.

Installation

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.

Using Fetch

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

Parameters

Parameter	Example value
client	{ base_uri : 'https://gtmetrix.com', timeout : 10 }
method	'POST'
destination	'api/0.1/test'
options	{ auth : ['username', 'password'] }

Example Usage

Request

{% 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) %}

Response (successful)

{
   "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) %}

Response (error)

{
   "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"
}

Fetch Roadmap

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

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