How to save an image using its URL

I did this steps and it didn't worked!
url_img =
name_file_img =
20141015-00:00.jpg
>> urlwrite(url_img, name_file_img); Error using urlreadwrite>getFileOutputStream (line 245) Could not open output file "C:\Users\Albm\Documents\MATLAB\2014\10\15\2014\10\15\2014\10\15\2014\10\15\20141015-00:00.jpg".
Error in urlreadwrite (line 69) [file,outputStream] = getFileOutputStream(inputs.filename);
Error in urlwrite (line 38) [f,status] = urlreadwrite(mfilename,catchErrors,url,filename,varargin{:});

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matt dash
matt dash on 17 Oct 2014
You just can't have a colon in a file name, that's all.

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Good pick-up!
I completely overlooked that.
Thanks everybody and sorry, but matt dash gave me the perfect answer, some times we forget too basics things. I don't know why. Thank you matt, now I have no problem.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 17 Oct 2014
You need to use imwrite() if you want to save an image, not urlwrite().

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This code saves the image to my computer just fine for me. Does it work for you?
% Specify the filename (URL).
filename = 'http://satelite.cptec.inpe.br/repositorio7/goes13_met10/goes13_met10_web/ams_afc_alta_jpg/2014/10/S11185873_201410150000.jpg';
% Read it in to a variable in my m-file.
rgbImage = imread(filename);
% Display the image.
imshow(rgbImage);
% Save the image to a file on my local hard drive.
imwrite(rgbImage, 'satellite image.jpg');
In this example rgbImage is saved with additional lossess (with a re-compression). To save the original JPEG file one needs to use urlwrite function.
To get no additional losses, use PNG format
imwrite(rgbImage, 'satellite image.png');
Can you show an example of how you'd save your image array with urlwrite()? The documentation only shows how to save web pages as HTML format, not how to save image data in PNG format.

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