Webread Giving different results than 'View Page Source' of website
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I am using webread to extract the 'view page source' text of a youtube page using the following:
>> d = webread('https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqqc1GmsuANsx3s3Y0C-BsQ/playlists?view=1&sort=dd&shelf_id=0')
However it returns text which is different from the view page source of that page. What am I doing wrong? I want to get the exact text as can be seen at 'view page source' of the page.
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Walter Roberson
on 28 Jul 2019
Use a packet trace utility to see what headers your browser is sending, and duplicate them.
Steven Lord
on 28 Jul 2019
In addition to what Walter wrote, you may be able to use the YouTube API to achieve your end goal without having to try to parse the raw HTML.
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