urlread

This MATLAB function downloads the HTML web content from the specified URL into the character vector str.

Here is a link to its variant, urlread2(), which adds extra functionality to the original urlread(). urlread2 makes extensive use of Java’s apis for http client-server connections. The java source files can also be downloaded from the following link for urlread2.

urlread2

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Here is documentation that describes the functionality of urlread2().

http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/expanding-urlreads-capabilities/

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