How can I get a Hyperlink url ?

when I get an html page as a string with urlread (e.g. 'http://www.mathworks.com/index.html?s_tid=gn_loc_drop'), I can see the line '<li class="topnav_products ">Products</li>' and >Products< is a hyperlink to 'http://www.mathworks.com/products/'. Is it possible to get the hyperlink adress, here 'http://www.mathworks.com/products/' ?

Many thanks for your help

Didier

Answer 1

[Dasharath Gulvady]

Didier,

The function "urlread" returns a string containing the entire text of the webpage at the specified URL. You may then use regular expressions to extract hyperlinks from this text.

html = urlread(url);
hyperlinks = regexprep(html,'<a.*?/a>','');

The below MATLAB Answers post gives a sample example for the same:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/973-how-do-i-read-text-from-html-file

[Didier]

Hi Dasharath, Many thanks !!