{"id":2957,"date":"2017-04-06T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T21:01:52","slug":"writing-a-script-to-download-ftp-files-from-a-set-of-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2017\/04\/06\/writing-a-script-to-download-ftp-files-from-a-set-of-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Script to Download FTP Files from a Set of Web Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I found a broken ftp link on a page on our web site, so I want to make sure there are not any more. Here I create a script to extract the ftp links from a set of pages and try and download the files.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><tt>readtable<\/tt>, <tt>webread<\/tt><\/li>\n<li><tt>regexp<\/tt>, <tt>ftp<\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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=\"5388141828001\" 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>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2017\/04\/06\/writing-a-script-to-download-ftp-files-from-a-set-of-web-pages\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/f06bc42b-f539-436d-bccb-1c17e61ef30c\/f3abf302-ab79-4d3e-b7c0-e9107def27b1\/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\">67:10<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>This morning, I found a broken ftp link on a page on our web site, so I want to make sure there are not any more. Here I create a script to extract the ftp links from a set of pages and try and&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2017\/04\/06\/writing-a-script-to-download-ftp-files-from-a-set-of-web-pages\/\">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":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957"}],"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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}