Web scraping in Octave

In this lesson, I will show you how to perform web scraping on Octave with practical examples.

Web scraping refers to the process of opening, reading, and saving the content of a web page into a variable or file on your computer using a script.

To open and download a web page, you can use the urlread() function, like this:

>> page=urlread('https://www.eage.it')

This function reads the online content of the web page and saves it in the Octave variable page.

Alternatively, you can use the urlwrite() function to read the content of the web page as a file:

>> urlwrite('https://www.eage.it', 'test.dat')

This function saves the content of the web page on the hard disk of your computer as a file named test.dat.

It's worth noting that in both cases, you need to have an open internet connection for the scraping commands to work properly.

Using these functions, you can read, copy, and process the online content present on web pages with ease.