MATLAB Central Newsreader - Reading Web Data

Reading Web Data

Matthew Simoneau — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:36:45 -0500

URLREAD returns everything, but the command window
interprets <a> links when displaying text (so you can click
on them). Everything is in the output variable, but it may
be garbled when displayed on the screen.

Re: Reading Web Data

Cassandra J. Nichols — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:40:47 -0500

Predictor wrote:
> Is there a way to read Web data exactly as it appears in "View... Page
> Source" within a browser? My experiments with urlread() seem to show
> that HTML tags and other items are ignored, but I'd like to be able to
> read the exact contents of Web pages, and interpret or filter out tags
> and so forth in my own code. Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Will

Will,

   In a quick test I just did with MATLAB 2007a, HTML tags were intact.

   >> urlread('http://www.google.com')

   returns everything starting from "<html>".

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  - Cassandra J. Nichols

Reading Web Data

Predictor — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:59:39 -0500

Is there a way to read Web data exactly as it appears in "View... Page
Source" within a browser? My experiments with urlread() seem to show
that HTML tags and other items are ignored, but I'd like to be able to
read the exact contents of Web pages, and interpret or filter out tags
and so forth in my own code. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Will