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matlaburlread
Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 19

MATLAB urlread from live timing website

this is a website with a live timing table:

http://www.apex-timing.com/live-timing/lemans-karting/index.html

Do you guys know whether the Matlab function urlread lets me read this kind of data?

Using

str = urlread('http://www.apex-timing.com/live-timing/lemans-karting/index.html')

returns a single string with lot of info probably related to the website code but nothing related to what I see on the website.

Cheers,

Sebastian

Upvotes: 1

Views: 290

Answers (1)

magnetometer
magnetometer

Reputation: 656

The website dynamically creates/updates its content using JavaScript. So I think that there is no easy way to read the data you want using Matlab. You would have to look at the script ( http://www.apex-timing.com/live-timing/common/Scripts/jquery-go.js ), unpack it and try to figure out how it works, however this is likely to be difficult and might violate the terms of service of the website.

Upvotes: 1

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