laravel excel download and parse file from URL

Question

I'm using Laravel excel package version 2 and want to download an excel file from a given URL . The function Excel::download was added in version 3. is there any way to still download excel files in version 2? maybe using file_get_contents() function from PHP itself.

Answer 1

From the Maatwebsite/Excel documentation:

Excel::create('Filename', function($excel) {

    })->export('xls');

    // or
    ->download('xls');

https://laravel-excel.maatwebsite.nl/2.1/export/export.html