Locating Files for Use with Processing

In most cases, you'll want to acquire data from within a program rather than copy it beforehand. Command-line tools like Wget are useful when grabbing very large data sets or when taking a look at a set of information before incorporating a live download into your code. Processing supports methods for loading data found at a range of locations. It's important to understand this structure before we get into the specifics of the API functions for acquiring data.