MATLAB: Downloading data with webread

Question

I would like to download on a local folder files with extension .txt.gz. I tried using webread with options weboptions('KeyName','Accept-Encoding','KeyValue','gzip'), but I cannot understand how to simply save the file in .txt format. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can use gunzip:

url = 'http://example.com/example.txt.gz';
gunzip(url);

If you can't download the file with that, you'll need websave as an intermediary:

url = 'http://example.com/example.txt.gz';
file = websave('example.txt.gz',url);
gunzip(file);