[scilab-Users] recovering the text of a web page from internet

[Eric Dubois]

Thanks for your quick answer.

However I am not sure that it answers exactly to my needs: what I am
looking for is a way to do that FROM Scilab (that is with a Scilab command,
encapsulated in a script or a function for instance) and if I have well
understood what you suggest, your proposal is to go through a download as a
text file on my computer.

Eric.


2012/3/14 Adrien Vogt-Schilb <vogt at centre-cired.fr>

>  On 14/03/2012 21:58, Eric Dubois wrote:
>
> Hello
>
>  Does anyone know how to recover the (text) content of a web page from
> Scilab (as it is possible with function dowlaod.file in R software)?
>
>  Thanks for your answer!.
>
>  Eric.
>
> hi
>
> if your machine runs on linux, you can use unix("wget -O myfile.txt
> http://www.url.com")
> and then open "myfile.txt"
>
> (you may want to deletefile("myfile.txt") once you are done)
>
> if you are using windows you can always install wget for windows (
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm) and use it the same way
>
> on mac i guess you can natively use wget too.
>
>
> hope this helps
>
> Adrien Vogt-Schilb
>
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