pdf file direct download

Suppose we have a website:

fullstudy.com/mathematics/mathematics-book.pdf

How can we download this pdf file using urlwrite or websave, using matlab?

Directly downloading this file from the web (without using Matlab) is not an option.

Answer 1

[Chunru]

url = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/pdf_doc/matlab/learn_matlab.pdf";
tic
urlwrite (url, 'learn_matlab.pdf');
toc

Elapsed time is 0.315862 seconds.

dir

.                 ..                learn_matlab.pdf  

[b]

This way it takes an enormous amount of time.

Looking for some other way please.

[Chunru]

What is the time it takes? See the updated code for time spent.

[Steven Lord]

Let me guess, you're trying to scrape a large number of files from a website. If that's the case you probably should contact the website owner to check if they're okay with you scraping the website (if not they may block you from accessing it, thinking your access to be part of a DDOS attack) and if they have some easy way (like an API) for you to access the set of files you want all at once.

[b]

It is only a small number of (100 or so) serialized files.

With the simple urlwrite way, it takes about 5 minutes for a ~20MB pdf file. It is not the issue of their server, because direct download (from web) takes less than 5 seconds for the same file.

Is there any other way to do this which will have a similar timeline (seconds)?

For the serialized version, the exact structure is like this:

fullstudy.com/mathematics_01/mathematics-book_01.pdf
fullstudy.com/mathematics_02/mathematics-book_02.pdf
fullstudy.com/mathematics_04/mathematics-book_04.pdf

and so on, with some entries in between missing.

[Chunru]

Why not trying something like FileZilla in this case?