{"id":4744,"date":"2020-11-13T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2020-11-13T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T21:19:53","slug":"scraping-links-from-a-list-of-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2020\/11\/13\/scraping-links-from-a-list-of-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Scraping Links from a List of Web Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Sherrie just asked me if I could extract the links from a specific set of pages, then store them in a spreadsheet. She just needs the links from the area in the center of the page and not on the top or bottom &#8220;boilerplate&#8221; area. I also plan to put the results for each page into a different worksheet of the spreadsheet. I will use a bunch of functions from the Text Analytics Toolbox that I have used before.<\/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>webread<\/tt><\/li>\n<li><tt>htmlTree<\/tt>, <tt>extractHTMLText<\/tt>, <tt>findElement<\/tt>, <tt>getAttribute<\/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=\"6209726090001\" 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\/2020\/11\/13\/scraping-links-from-a-list-of-web-pages\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/d3055681-ba6d-4dc0-bad8-d6a66149dcc4\/eddb6ec9-a3cc-413f-98ba-4f1fc84d54bc\/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\">44:14<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>My colleague Sherrie just asked me if I could extract the links from a specific set of pages, then store them in a spreadsheet. She just needs the links from the area in the center of the page and&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2020\/11\/13\/scraping-links-from-a-list-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\/4744"}],"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=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}