How do I download a data-file from a link which has a data-confirm-modal?
3 views (last 30 days)
Show older comments
Hi
I'm having trouble downloading a csv file from a webpage using the webread function. To manually download the data-file from the webpage, the user needs to click thru a confirmation pop-up box and I suspect this causing me problems. The data confirmation pop-up box shown below. The webpage coding is also shown.
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/291406/image.png)
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/291407/image.png)
My Matlab code attempt is below along with the resultant error:
options=weboptions('Username','redacted','Password','redacted','Timeout',Inf,'ContentType','text');
test2 = webread('https://midnorthmesonet-api.taindata.com/admin/sites/29/download_csv_data',options);
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/291408/image.png)
I've trialled the webread function on a data-file from the Bureau of Meteorology and it works fine (code below). And I can also successfully use webread to read the 'https://midnorthmesonet-api.taindata.com/admin/sites' webpage so I think the username and password is fine. I'm assuming I need another QueryName and QueryValue pair to deal with the pop-up, but I can't find any info about this. Any tips would be much appreciated!
options = weboptions('ContentType','text');
test1 = webread('http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDS60801/IDS60801.94681.axf',options);
0 Comments
Answers (0)
See Also
Categories
Find more on Downloads in Help Center and File Exchange
Community Treasure Hunt
Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!
Start Hunting!