Web Scraper with Screenshots
Example web page scraper saving text, images, and screenshots.
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This educational Live Script scrapes a webpage and webpages linked from that page for image and text content and collects screenshots along the way with user-selectable magnification and image file format. It is designed to scrape the MATLAB File Exchange, which offers a searchable index with links to splash pages for each file, each standardized splash page containing a preview of an optional image, a text overview, and a citation, as well as other information.
The script is NOT a general scraper and only supports Chrome as a browser. It depends upon the particular structure of the File Exchange web pages, but may offer a useful model for other scraper applications.
This script may interest File Exchange users and others interested in scraping. Additional educational Live Scripts by the author are here.
Cite As
Duncan Carlsmith (2026). Web Scraper with Screenshots (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/181843-web-scraper-with-screenshots), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
General Information
- Version 1.01 (6.03 MB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
