{"id":1730,"date":"2015-09-23T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2015-09-23T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:30:45","slug":"reading-web-pages-part-1-using-webread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/09\/23\/reading-web-pages-part-1-using-webread\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Web Pages, Part 1: Using webread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in the first of a series of videos, my colleague Matt Tearle demonstrates how to read web pages with the webread function. In this application, he reads a random Wiki page and follows the first link in the text to see how many steps it takes to get to the article on philosophy. It usually does not take very long, and this is discussed in this wiki article: <a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"4401259655001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download code\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/52489-example-files-from-the--reading-web-pages--part-1--using-webread--video\">Download the example files used in the video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/09\/23\/reading-web-pages-part-1-using-webread\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/208d9798-a1c8-4859-b7e6-57caa8ba5634\/d065b29d-282f-4d1b-b90f-42e1137a9b6f\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">6:57<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week, in the first of a series of videos, my colleague Matt Tearle demonstrates how to read web pages with the webread function. In this application, he reads a random Wiki page and follows the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/09\/23\/reading-web-pages-part-1-using-webread\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}