Access wordpress rest api from wordpress plugin

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The question may seems dumb but i need to access wordpress's default rest api from my custom wordpress plugin so that i can modify further for my custom api endpoints and post data to a third party api.

I need to access and have all the data and functionalities of the existing rest api but i don't want to fetch data from database by querying again. Instead i want to call the rest api directly from plugin.

Now the problem it doesn't seems right to calling rest api from a plugin. If i want to avoid querying again from database is this a valid approach (calling rest api) or there are other better ways to do that?

Parham Parnian · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-02 00:58:01Z

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According to the Wordpress Rest API HandBook, To modify Responses, You can use register_rest_field and register_meta.

More Details : Modifying Responses

To Create an Endpoint you can use , register_rest_route().

More Details : Routes and Endpoints

answered Jun 2, 2018 at 0:58

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AMH Fallahi · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-09 05:26:03Z

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It isn’t difficult to make an internal REST API call, but it is a bit more involved than your normal WP_Query usage. Also, keep in mind that the parameters you pass to the REST API are not always the same as what you would pass to WP_Query. For example, the post_status query var would become status when making an API request.

<?php
  $request = new WP_REST_Request( 'GET', '/wp/v2/posts' );
  $request->set_query_params( [ 'per_page' => 12 ] );
  $response = rest_do_request( $request );
  $server = rest_get_server();
  $data = $server->response_to_data( 
  $response, false );
  $json = wp_json_encode( $data );

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answered Apr 9, 2022 at 5:26

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