Easiest way to call an External rest API?

Mark is right, without knowing more, this is a hard question to answer. This is a general guide though (not written by me) that I’ve used for my projects in the past.

https://yoast.com/wordpress-http-api/

It should get you started and then if you have other questions, please let us know.

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