Placid is a Craft plugin which makes it easy to use REST services in your twig templates, whether thats getting a twitter feed, showing off dribbble shots or getting the weather, Placid has you covered.

Features

• Send PUSH, POST, PATCH, GET requests to an API
• Define your own access tokens to send with requests
• Integrates with the Dukt OAuth plugin
• Send requests via AJAX
• Easily retrieve information about each requests response
• Modify requests before they are sent, within your template.

Installing / Updating

Installing

• Download the latest release and unzip
• Upload the placid directory to craft/plugins
• Install in admin area

Updating

• Download the latest release and unzip
• Replace placid directory in craft/plugins
• Refresh admin section and run the update

Basic example

Assuming you had your request set up like in the example above. You just need to do this:

{% set timeline = craft.placid.request('timeline', options) %}

{# Get the http status code that was sent from Twitter #}
{{ timeline.status }}

{% for tweet in timeline.data %}
  {{ tweet.text }}
{% endfor %}

For full instructions on how to use, refer to the wiki