title: laravel excel download and parse file from URL
body: <p>I'm using <a href="https://packagist.org/packages/maatwebsite/excel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Laravel excel package</a> version 2 and want to download an excel file <strong>from a given URL</strong>.
  The function <code>Excel::download</code> was added in version 3. is there any way to still download excel files in version 2? maybe using  <code>file_get_contents()</code> function from PHP itself.</p>