webread

Read content from url using Rest API

Attention: Valid only with Altair Communication Extension.

Syntax

response = webread(url)

response = webread(url,options)

Inputs

url
URL address
Type: string
options
web options. output of weboptions.
Type: struct

Outputs

response
content read from web service specified by url.
Type: string

Examples

read content from url 
url = 'http://ergast.com/api/f1/2004/1/results.json';
data = webread(url);
datajson = jsondecode(data);
Driver = datajson.MRData.RaceTable.Races.Results(1).Driver
Driver = struct [
  code: MSC
  dateOfBirth: 1969-01-03
  driverId: michael_schumacher
  familyName: Schumacher
  givenName: Michael
  nationality: German
  url: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Schumacher
read content from url with query string
url = 'https://api.restful-api.dev/objects';
data_full = webread(url);
data = webread(url,'id','3')
data = [{"id":"3","name":"Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max","data":{"color":"Cloudy White","capacity GB":512}}]
read content from url with web options
url = 'https://httpbin.org/get';
options = weboptions('Username','testuser','Password','testpassword','RequestMethod','get','HeaderFields',struct('Content-Type','application/json'));
  res = webread(url,options)
res = {
  "args": {}, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*", 
    "Authorization": "Basic dGVzdHVzZXI6dGVzdHBhc3N3b3Jk", 
    "Content-Type": "application/json", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-656e65bd-6928e1c72b9d5a8e68f62c61"
  }, 
  "origin": "68.61.253.8", 
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}