read yahoo news in matlab

To read Yahoo News in MATLAB, you can use web scraping techniques to extract data from the website. Here are the steps:

  1. Use Matlab's built-in webread function to get the HTML content of the Yahoo News page:
main.m
url = 'https://www.yahoo.com/news/';
html = webread(url);
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  1. Parse the HTML content using a parser like htmldom toolbox for MATLAB. You can download the toolbox from the MATLAB File Exchange.
main.m
dom = htmldom(html);
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  1. Find the HTML elements that contain the news articles by inspecting the webpage's HTML code. Use getElementsByTagName function to get them:
main.m
articles = dom.getElementsByTagName('article');
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  1. Loop through the articles and extract the data you want, such as the title, author, date, and content:
main.m
for i = 1:length(articles)
    % get the article title
    title = articles(i).getElementsByTagName('h4').text;
    
    % get the author
    author = articles(i).getElementsByClassName('provider').text;
    
    % get the date
    date = articles(i).getElementsByClassName('date').text;
    
    % get the content
    content = articles(i).getElementsByClassName('canvas-atom').text;
end
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You can adjust the code according to your specific requirements. Just make sure that you abide by the website's terms of service and do not request data too frequently, as this can be considered as web scraping abuse.

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