Read table data from url

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Ashley Brereton
Ashley Brereton on 18 Jul 2021
Answered: Toshiaki Takeuchi on 24 Oct 2023
Hi there,
I would like to read some table data from a website. For example, the data in this website:
I've tried urlread and webread, but I am stumped.
Many thanks,
Ash

Answers (2)

Pavan Guntha
Pavan Guntha on 27 Jul 2021
Hi Ashley,
Please go through the below MATLAB answer and File Exchange posts:
  1. http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2010/08/20/get-html-table-data-into-matlab/
  2. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/315088-how-to-read-a-table-from-an-url
  3. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/59548-url-read-table
  4. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29642-get-html-table-data-into-matlab-via-urlread-and-without-builtin-browser
The links mentioned above are few of the several submissions in MATLAB File Exchange on MATLAB Central which is a forum for our product users to interact, exchange information and knowledge, without MathWorks' involvement. Feel free to contact the author of this submission directly for specific questions about the implementation.
Hope this helps!

Toshiaki Takeuchi
Toshiaki Takeuchi on 24 Oct 2023
url = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/text-files.html";
T = readtable(url,TableSelector="//TABLE[contains(.,'readtable')]", ...
ReadVariableNames=false)
T = 4×2 table
Var1 Var2 ________________ ___________________________________________ "readtable" "Create table from file" "writetable" "Write table to file" "readtimetable" "Create timetable from file (Since R2019a)" "writetimetable" "Write timetable to file (Since R2019a)"

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