Two generic approaches to the WebServerDAT
This TouchDesigner showcase project was published by Derivative in 2020.
I have come to work more and more using webtechnologies. I also have a little course for intermidiate users of TouchDesigner explaining the basics of fetching data from webAPIs over at the Node Institute. But requests have far more utilities then fetching data from some random server in the web.
Programme information from Derivative (TouchDesigner) Community. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.