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APEX Rest API to connect to external website

I am trying to retrive data from an external website into a custom object (EZE) in our SF org.  There are multiple fields on the oject that need to be poulated twice a day.  The sample code code from the external site is:

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I am not a developer so I am not sure what the code would be for the Apex clss setup to retrive the data.
Amit Singh 1Amit Singh 1
You can use online tool JSON2APEX to generate the apex class. And then Deserialize the same.