How to use cURL to Get JSON Data and Decode JSON Data in PHP ? Improve Improve Like Article Like Save Share Report In this article, we are going to see how to use cURL to Get JSON data and Decode JSON data in PHP. cURL: It stands for Client URL. It is a command line tool for sending and getting files using URL syntax. cURL allows communicating with other servers using HTTP, FTP, Telnet, and more. Approach: We are going to fetch JSON data from one of free website, which gives JSON data for testing i.e. reqres.in First, we initialize curl using curl_init() method. Sending GET request to reqres.in server using curl_setopt() method with CURLOPT_URL to get json data. After that, we have to tell curl to store json data in a variable instead of dumping on screen. This is done by using CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER parameter in curl_setopt() function. Execute curl using curl_exec() method. At last, close the curl using curl_close() method. Example: PHP <?php // Initializing curl $curl = curl_init(); // Sending GET request to reqres.in // server to get JSON data curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://reqres.in/api/users?page=2"); // Telling curl to store JSON // data in a variable instead // of dumping on screen curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Executing curl $response = curl_exec($curl); // Checking if any error occurs // during request or not if($e = curl_error($curl)) { echo $e; } else { // Decoding JSON data $decodedData = json_decode($response, true); // Outputting JSON data in // Decoded form var_dump($decodedData); } // Closing curl curl_close($curl); ?> Output: GET Request using cURL Last Updated : 01 Apr, 2022 Like Article Save Article Previous How to receive JSON POST with PHP ? Next How to Create a Folder if It Doesn't Exist in PHP ? Share your thoughts in the comments Add Your Comment Please Login to comment...