Remove Csrf verifcation of specific route

Question

I'm trying to create an api with my laravel app, but when I do a post request to a route, Laravel by default tries to verify the csrf token. So, I want to remove this verification for the api routes. I want to maintain the verification for the front end request. But when I add the exception routes in app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php, I'm getting this error:

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this is the VerifyCsrfToken.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken as BaseVerifier;

class VerifyCsrfToken extends BaseVerifier
{
    /**
     * The URIs that should be excluded from CSRF verification.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $except = [
        //
        'log_bounces_complaints',
    ];
}

Answer 1

Just extend the VerifyCsrfToken and add the urls you want to exclude.

<?php namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Session\TokenMismatchException;

class VerifyCsrfToken extends \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken {

    protected $except_urls = [
        'your_specific_url/new_url',
        'your_specific_url/new_url_2',
        ...
    ];

    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $regex = '#' . implode('|', $this->except_urls) . '#';

        if ($this->isReading($request) || $this->tokensMatch($request) || preg_match($regex, $request->path()))
        {
            return $this->addCookieToResponse($request, $next($request));
        }

        throw new TokenMismatchException;
    }

}

and in the Kernel, change the new middleware.

protected $middleware = [

    ...

    'App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken',
];