How to download files online using Matlab?

I need to download many (like hundreds or thousands) of HDF files from an online database. What functions can I use so I can constuct a code that will allow me to download those files? I know theres webread and urlwrite but do those only work for HTML files?

Answer 1

[Pavan Guntha]

Hello Shayma,

You could urlwrite function to download the files from an online database. The following steps can be followed to download the files:

1) Save of the URL of the file to be downloaded into a variable called 'url':

% NOTE: This URL has just been taken as an example to illustrate the
% process.
url = 'http://blizzard.mtukrc.org/~weather/KRCwthr050916.csv';

2) Use urlwrite to download the required file as follows:

urlwrite (url, 'KRCwthr050916.csv'); % 'KRCwthr050916.csv' is the output file name

You could also use webwrite function to store the output into a workspace variable.

For mor information on urlwrite, you could look at the documentation page here.

Hope this helps!