Web scraping

Version 1.0.0.0 (5.88 KB) by Richard Tol
Scrapes data from multiple websites and stores them in a structured database
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These scripts scrape data (on countries' performance in economic research) from some 300 different pages of the IDEAS/RePEc site, reorganize the data, and store the data in a structured way in an Excel spreadsheet.

The application is not particularly exciting, but it illustrates the power of Matlab for the purpose of scraping the web.

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Richard Tol (2024). Web scraping (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32896-web-scraping), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2010b
Compatible with any release
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1.0.0.0