Hi there,
I was wondering if I can auto-select something from a website (example: languages from http://www.newocr.com/) using webread/webwrite or some kind of command. First of all, I just want to make sure that this is possible or not.
Thank you!

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Guillaume
Guillaume on 14 Mar 2018

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Using webread, webwrite or any other built-in command, no it's not possible. The submission/selection is all handled by javascript which none of the built-in tools can handle.
You could possibly do it by using the java API (unrelated to javascript) to parse the DOM and make the correct javascript calls but it would be a lot of work.
That page has not been designed to be manipulated by computers. You could contact the owners and ask them if they provide a REST interface (which would be easy to use from matlab).

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