9.9) Obtaining Data From The Web

Matlab has functions that can help you "pull" data from the internet. You may want to have a script which automatically downloads recent data, or you may want to make your Matlab code portable without having to attach large data files.

• urlread - Downloads a URL's content to a string. The URL includes the transfer protocol. E.g. http or ftp
• urlwrite - Downloads a URL's content to a file

[matlab]
% URL is a string of the url and filename is the name of the file you want to save
full_url='http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst/data/HadISST1_SST_2013.txt.gz'
filename='HadISST1_SST_2013.txt.gz'
urlwrite(full_url, filename)
gunzip(filename)
[/matlab]