{"id":4128,"date":"2019-03-14T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2019-05-23T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T13:42:15","slug":"building-a-matlab-app-to-extract-web-page-html-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2019\/03\/14\/building-a-matlab-app-to-extract-web-page-html-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a MATLAB App to Extract Web Page HTML Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague asked if I could extract a date string from a set of MATLAB Answer pages. I&#8217;ve often needed to extract patterns from random web pages and have written scripts to do so, so I thought I would build a MATLAB App to do this. Eventually I will turn it into a web app for other colleges to use.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, from about 2 min to 3 min 30 sec, the audio is choppy as MATLAB startup interferes with my video recording.<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/matlab\/app-designer.html\">App Designer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><tt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/regexp.html\">regexp<\/a><\/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=\"6013902564001\" 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\/2019\/03\/14\/building-a-matlab-app-to-extract-web-page-html-patterns\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/ddfa8d08-7eae-4cd5-b0ec-19bfee49fa98\/98366a11-24da-4661-ae02-73a050772474\/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\">93:06<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>A colleague asked if I could extract a date string from a set of MATLAB Answer pages. I&#8217;ve often needed to extract patterns from random web pages and have written scripts to do so, so I thought&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2019\/03\/14\/building-a-matlab-app-to-extract-web-page-html-patterns\/\">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":[33,27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128"}],"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=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}