How to pull data from an API (Video Game Aggregator Lesson)

I'm looking at the Video Game Aggregator Laracast lesson.

https://laracasts.com/series/build-a-video-game-aggregator

I cloned the GitHub repository and started the server.

The page booted up, but then it redirected to this exception:

Illuminate\Http\Client\ConnectionException
cURL error 6: Could not resolve: api-v3.igdb.com (DNS query cancelled) (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)

It's trying to pull data from the IGDB web site. I didn't alter the code.

How do I resolve this?

aurawindsurfing

5 years ago

Level 50

Hey @daniel1836

Now this might seem like too simple to be true but what I have been using lately is simple Laravel build in Http client: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/http-client

you can simply use it like this:

 $response = Http::post(env('PLAID_ENV') . '/transactions/get', [
            'client_id'    => env('PLAID_CLIENT_ID'),
            'secret'       => env('PLAID_SECRET'),
            'access_token' => $this->access_token,
            'start_date'   => '2018-01-01',
            'end_date'     => '2020-12-31',
        ]);

the you do:

$response->json();

Hope it helps!

Daniel1836

5 years ago

Level 6

I resolved the connection issue. Now I have an authorization issue. I think it involves the key used to access this IGDB API. The exception I get is this:

GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException
Client error: `POST https://api.igdb.com/v4/multiquery` resulted in a `401 Unauthorized` response: {"message":"Unauthorized"}

I'm following the directions from https://api-docs.igdb.com/#account-creation I registered and got a key.

The way I understand you just paste the IGDB_KEY inside the .env file. (which I did) Is there more to it than that?

It also generates a client id. I haven't looked into using that. I'm not sure where it goes.

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