check http method in laravel 8 api code example

Example 1: laravel http request get response

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::get('http://example.com');

// The get method returns an instance of Illuminate\Http\Client\Response,
// which provides a variety of methods that may be used to inspect the response:
$response->body() : string;
$response->json() : array|mixed;
$response->collect() : Illuminate\Support\Collection;
$response->status() : int;
$response->ok() : bool;
$response->successful() : bool;
$response->failed() : bool;
$response->serverError() : bool;
$response->clientError() : bool;
$response->header($header) : string;
$response->headers() : array;

Example 2: laravel check if api request

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