Publisher review:webbot - A Java-based "web browser" that extract all links from a web-page, and display them. WEBBOT Java-based browser with download and PERL regular expressions. The function will extract all links from a web-page, and display them. The resulting documents can be downloaded.WEBBOT(URL)URL is a string indicating the base page address; the url must link to an html file. The function lists all links in the file. URL can also be a cell vector of url-strings.WEBBOT(URL, WHAT)displays only specific links. WHAT is a string:'all_links': displays all links (default).'page_links': displays all links to an html web page*.'local_links': displays all local links on the server*.'external_links': displays all links to external websites.'image_links': displays all links to an image file**.'image_tags': displays all image tags .'.xxx.yyyy.zz': displays all links to each specific .xxx files; the case is ignored ('zip' will find 'ZiP'); e.g. '.zip.gz.gzip.tar.Z'.WEBBOT(URL, WHAT, ACT)performs an action on found links. ACT is a string:'noaction': just display links (default)'download': downloads all links found locally.'cartoons': downloads all image tags found on linked pages. This is usefull for cartoons websites where each cartoon (e.g. "01.gif") is on its own html page (e.g. "c01.html").'follow.x': follows links to html pages and recursively performs the same action on the resulting page. 'x' is an integer indicating the ecursivity depth (0 is equivalent to 'noaction').lks = WEBBOT(URL, ...)returns an cell-array with links of URL{end}.Notes: * Links explicitely pointing to a .htm or .html url.** Image links are recognized by the following file types:.jpg .jpeg .gif .pict .bmp .tif .tiff .ras .png (.giff) Requirements: ยท MATLAB Release: R13
webbot is a Matlab script for Scientific/Engineering scripts design by Laurent Cavin.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris