MATLAB: Calling Internet Explore from MATLAB and same also for FireFox too

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Does anyone know how Calling Internet Explore from MATLAB and same also for FireFox too? and how reading an .html by them

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Try:

myUrl = 'www.mathworks.com/index.html';
ieCmd = ['iexplore ' myUrl];
ffCmd = ['firefox ' myUrl];
system(ieCmd);
system(ffCmd);

Both iexplore.exe and firefox.exe should be on the system PATH variable.

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MATLAB: How to launch a web browser or an .html file through MATLAB

You can launch a web browser or an .html file through MATLAB either by using the WEB command or the DOS command. Here are two ways to launch a web browser using MATLAB:

1. The WEB Command

This launches the URL or html file in the default browser for MATLAB - not Internet Explorer or Netscape, but the browser shipped with MATLAB. The WEB command launches the URL in this browser window. For more information, refer to the MATLAB documentation, using either

help web

doc web

at the MATLAB command prompt.

2. Using DOS commands through MATLAB.

The following example launches a new window every time a URL or an html file is called:

          dos('explorer http://www.yahoo.com');  
          dos('explorer test.html');

The following example uses the same explorer window to launch a URL or an html file:

           dos('start D:\Applications\Matlab_R12.1\help\search1.html');   
           dos('start http://www.yahoo.com');

The following example shows how to dynamically generate a URL from MATLAB variables and launch it in the browser:

googleSubSite = {'shopping','wallet','finance'};
% launch 3 browser windows or tabs
for i = 1:3
dos(['start www.google.com/' googleSubSite{i}])
end

If you are planning to launch a web browser through stand-alone code generated using MATLAB, use the DOS command and not the WEB command. (The WEB command uses objects, which are not supported when compiling with the MATLAB compiler.)

MATLAB: Using ActiveX to copy and paste from a website

According to the MSDN documenation of the document property, what it returns depends on the type of the page that is loaded.

The example you linked assumes the page loaded is a html page, in which case document returns a IHTMLDocument2 compatible interface, which has a method ExecCommand.

In your case, I would guess that the page loaded is a javascript file, hence document returns a JScriptTypeInfo interface which is something completely different (for which I can't find much documentation).

Note that automating internet explorer is not particularly well documented and now that internet explorer has been deprecated, it's going to get harder and harder to find documentation.

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