Read table data from url

Hi there,

I would like to read some table data from a website. For example, the data in this website:

https://bscscan.com/token/0xbb4CdB9CBd36B01bD1cBaEBF2De08d9173bc095c

I've tried urlread and webread, but I am stumped.

Many thanks,

Ash

Answer 1

[Pavan Guntha]

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!

Answer 2

[Toshiaki Takeuchi]

You can use readtable https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/readtable.html

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)"