Laravel Wordpress JSON REST API gives strange Curl error - php

Question

I'm trying to use laravel-wp-api to get the posts from a blog. When I use Postman with http://idareyou.ee/blog//wp-json/wp/v2/posts I get a 200 OK HTTP response and Postman shows the JSON result.
The following Laravel BlogController getPosts() method prints in the browser this Curl error:
{"error":{"message":"cURL error 6: Couldn't resolve host '\u003Cwp_location\u003E' (see http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/libcurl\/c\/libcurl-errors.html)"},"results":[],"total":0,"pages":0}
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use WpApi;
class BlogController extends Controller
{
public function getPosts()
{
$posts = WpApi::posts('http://idareyou.ee/blog//wp-json/wp/v2/posts');
echo json_encode($posts,true);
//return view('pages.blog', ['active'=>'navBlog'])->with('posts', $posts );
}
}
Elsewhere in my app I am fetching successfully some pictures from Instagram API using the following. Do I need a similar 'fetchData' function in my BlogController?
function fetchData($url){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
$result = fetchData("https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/.......");
$result = json_decode($result, true);
$lastFive = array_slice($result['data'], 0, 5); // returns last 5 instagram pics
Can anybody give me any tips on what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I would check the config file for this service - my guess is you need to set-up the endpoint (blog domain) for your calls. So once you run php artisan vendor:publish you should have a specific config file under app/config - see if there's a setting there you need to change.
Hope this helps!