using google on matlab web browser
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Rainaire Hansford
on 8 Dec 2019
Commented: Rainaire Hansford
on 8 Jan 2020
So I am trying to use the web browser for matlab using so far I have this code.
url = 'www.google.com';
web(url)
I'm to make a code where I would type some thing to sereach (Like you would with google) but using my matlab code and matlab browser.
Is there a way?
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per isakson
on 8 Dec 2019
Edited: per isakson
on 8 Dec 2019
Your code works for me (R2018b). It opens a google page in which I'm asked to accept some account related stuff. I guess, Google regards me as a new user.
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Jesus Sanchez
on 5 Jan 2020
You need to generate the complete url from matlab and then pass that to web(url). After a brief testing, the format for google search is
url = ['www.google.com/search?q=' search_target];
in search target, different words should be separated by '+', as this is how google works. You can check that yourself by searching something in google and looking at the url
Examples:
This only looks for cats:
search_target = 'cats';
url = ['www.google.com/search?q=' search_target];
web(url)
This looks for food recommendations for cats:
search_target = 'food+recomendations+for+cats';
url = ['www.google.com/search?q=' search_target];
web(url)
About introducing the "+" between words, you will need to distinguish between the different words that are part of the question and then add that between them.
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Jesus Sanchez
on 6 Jan 2020
Edited: Jesus Sanchez
on 6 Jan 2020
It works fine for me. When I used the following code:
search_target = input('What would you like to find?')
url = ['www.google.com/search?q=' search_target];
web(url)
And as the input I wrote 'cat+pictures'. I also tried 'cat pictures' without the + and it seems to work right. However, do remember that the input should be between semicolons, as this is how matlab defines char arrays (only condition for all of this to work)
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