How can we call url() with port number in Laravel controller. Node server is running on different po-CodePudding

My Laravel application is running on 127.0.0.1:8000 port but my node server is running on port 127.0.0.1:8001 which has a node script that scrapes data. how can I call the URL function to point out the 127.0.0.1:8001 port from a Laravel controller to run such a script?

for example, check the comment in the index() in DataScrapingController

class DataScrapingController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {   
        // Here is the below URL I want to call this URL when a user calls this index 
        //controller function 

        "http://127.0.0.1:8001/scrape"
        


        // After scraping the data when this **http://127.0.0.1:8001/scrape** URL call. which 
        // saves the data in the output.json file here I get the output.json file and return the 
        // data to the data-scraping blade file.

        $data = json_decode(file_get_contents('output.json'));
        return view('data-scraping', compact('data')); 
    }
}

Below image is the node hierarchy in the Laravel application

thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

Use the Laravel Http wrapper around guzzle

$response = Http::get("http://127.0.0.1:8001/scrape");

Please see https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/http-client#main-content

Make sure you are not running php artisan serve as this can only handle one connection at once.