How do I scrape a website using MATLAB?

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azizullah khan
azizullah khan on 18 Jul 2014
Commented: Image Analyst on 20 Jul 2014
I want to scrape the text data from a table on a website. I have used urlfilter but this only scrapes numbers.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 18 Jul 2014
Edited: Image Analyst on 18 Jul 2014
Use urlread() to get everything.
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azizullah khan
azizullah khan on 19 Jul 2014
i have a web which further consist of 200 pages Every page contain table i want to extract some data from the table not all data and make a table from all these pages. and save the data in excel. if you have any kind of idea share it with me.. Bundle of thanks
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 20 Jul 2014
I don't have anything beyond urlread() for that. There is not going to be any built-in code that know exactly how your 200 web pages are laid out and how to extract the table from all the rest of the HTML code that is retrieved. There are billions of web pages out there and they just don't a page parser for all of them, or even yours. You're going to have to do that yourself.

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