Download file from GitHub with MATLAB
There are many solutions for automatically downloading files from GitHub. However, they work easily mainly under Linux, needing the libraries wget or curl. If someone works with Windows or directly wants to use MATLAB, this program is useful.
The syntax is
filestr = githubFetch(user, repository, downloadType, version)
with the inputs
user: name of the user or the organization
repository: name of the repository
downloadType: 'branch' or 'release'
version: if downloadType is 'branch': branch name (default: 'master')
if downloadType is 'release': release version
and the output
filestr: path to the downloaded file (empty if the downloading failed)
Examples:
githubFetch('GLVis', 'glvis', 'branch', 'master');githubFetch('matlab2tikz', 'matlab2tikz', 'branch', 'develop');githubFetch('matlab2tikz', 'matlab2tikz', 'release', '1.1.0');
Instead of webread and webwrite introduced to MATLAB in 2014, urlread and urlwrite is used existing before 2006. The other advantage of urlread and urlwrite is that they are supported by Octave as well.
Currently, Octave fails with the link formatting. I am working on it ...