Syntax use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttpClient; $httpClient = HttpClient::create(); $response = $httpClient->request('GET', 'https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/symfony-docs'); $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode(); // $statusCode = 200 $content = $response->getContent(); // returns the raw content returned by the server (JSON in this case) // $content = '{"id":521583, "name":"symfony-docs", ...}' $content = $response->toArray(); // transforms the response JSON content into a PHP array // $content = ['id' => 521583, 'name' => 'symfony-docs', ...] // the response of this request will be a 403 HTTP error $response = $httpClient->request('GET', 'https://httpbin.org/status/403'); // this code results in a Symfony\Component\HttpClient\Exception\ClientException // because it doesn't check the status code of the response $content = $response->getContent(); // do this instead if (200 !== $response->getStatusCode()) { // handle the HTTP request error (e.g. retry the request) } else { $content = $response->getContent(); }