Save a .txt file

Hey, I need help on the following:

I have a .txt file with many URLs where each line is a diferent URL. Each URL contains only a bunch of text and numbers, nothing else. How do I create a function that reads that same .txt file, accesses each one those URLs and saves to my desktop a .txt that contains the data from that URL. One .txt file per URL.

Thank you for you time.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Did you check the help for fgetl()?

fid = fopen('fgetl.m');
urlString= fgetl(fid);
while ischar(urlString)
    disp(urlString)
    urlString = fgetl(fid);
    webPageContents = urlread(urlString);
    % Save it, or whatever.....
end
fclose(fid);

[Bob Choy]

Thank you for your answer, at the moment I have the following:

function save(Name_File,Name_FileLocal);
  fid = fopen(Name_File);
  while ~feof(fid)
    URL = fgetl(fid);
    Contents = urlwrite(URL,Name_FileLocal);
  end
  fclose(fid);
end

Where Name_File is the .txt file with all the urls and Name_FileLocal is the name of the file I want to save the contents to. The problem is it only saves the contents from the first URL in the .txt file.

I need it to read the content from the first URL and save it as content1.txt, read the second URL and save it as content2.txt, and so on.

Any idea on how can I do this?

Thank you.

[Image Analyst]

You need to create a new filename each iteration, something like this:

fid = fopen(Name_File);
count = 1;
while ~feof(fid)
  URL = fgetl(fid);
        Name_FileLocal = sprintf('web page %d.txt', count);
        count = count+1;
  Contents = urlwrite(URL,Name_FileLocal);
end
fclose(fid);

[Bob Choy]

Thats EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you good sir!

Question answered.

[Image Analyst]

Go ahead and mark it so.