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Subject: Reading Web Data

From: Predictor

Date: 25 Nov, 2007 14:59:39

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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

Subject: Re: Reading Web Data

From: Cassandra J. Nichols

Date: 26 Nov, 2007 02:40:47

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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

Subject: Reading Web Data

From: Matthew Simoneau

Date: 26 Nov, 2007 16:36:45

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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.

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