Processing Network HTTP Request Help

Processing Libraries
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Please share your attempts and your efforts.

I have found a couple of post from previous posts:

Below is an example using HTTP GET / and using loadString(). The value of OUTPUT_LEN defines the amount of data to output in the console.

Kf

//REFERENCES: Text only websites   https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html

//===========================================================================
// IMPORTS:
import http.requests.*;

//===========================================================================
// FINAL FIELDS:
final int OUTPUT_LEN=150;
final String[] urls = {
  "http://www.example.com/", 
  "http://www.google.com/", 
  "http://lite.cnn.io/en/"
};


//===========================================================================
// PROCESSING DEFAULT FUNCTIONS:

void settings() {
  size(400, 600);
}

void setup() {

  textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
  rectMode(CENTER);

  fill(255);
  strokeWeight(2); 

  for (String url : urls) {
    getRequest(url);
    getData(url);
    delay(2000);   //NOT really needed but always be a good citizen
  }
  exit();
}

void draw(){}

//===========================================================================
// OTHER FUNCTIONS:

void getRequest(String url) {
  GetRequest get = new GetRequest(url); 
  get.send();
  String ret=get.getContent();
  println("====================GET /===========================");
  println("URL: ", url, "returned", ret.length(), "bytes (?)");
  println("Response Content:", ret.substring(0, OUTPUT_LEN), "...");
}

void getData(String url) {
  String[] str = loadStrings(url);  
  String ret=join(str, '\n');
  println("====================LOADSTRING===========================");
  println("URL: ", url, "returned", ret.length(), "bytes (?)");
  println("Response Content:", ret.substring(0, OUTPUT_LEN), "...");
}
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