laravel make request to api code example

Example 1: laravel 6 make http request

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->get('https://api.github.com/user', ['auth' =>  ['user', 'pass']]);
echo $res->getStatusCode(); // 200
echo $res->getBody(); // { "type": "User", ....

Example 2: laravel check if api request

if (Request::wantsJson()) {
    // return JSON-formatted response
} else {
    // return HTML response
}