PUT POST API Calls from as a cronjob

Hi! I have put all my API calls methods in a models. They are basic commands like create() read() search() store() etc.

For a start I made these in a controller and now I'm trying to move the logic from the controller into a commands so I can run the script as a daily cronjob. For some reason they wont work as commands. Is this because you cant use PUT POST calls? Since it seams that the read functions works just fine.

And if it is so that i cant use PUT and POST in crons, is there a workaround for this?

Here is some example code

public function handle()
{
    $myModel = new MyModel;
    $thing = array(
        "title" => "My title",
        "user_id" => 12345,
        "org_id" => 54321,
    );

    $returned_id = $myModel->create($thing);
}


public function create($thing)
{
    $api_token = "XXXX";
    $url = "https://api.api-site.com/thing?api_token=" . $api_token;
    
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $thing);
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    //array from the data that is sent back from the API
    $result = json_decode($output, 1);
    // check if an id came back
    if (!empty($result['data']['id'])) {
    $deal_id = $result['data']['id'];
    return $deal_id;
    } else {
    return false;
    }
}