This is a script that downloads code from the MatlabCentral File Exchange.
You can use it like this:
$ python scrape.py --to=downloads/ --num_projects=10 --sort=downloads_desc
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Downloading 7401-scalable-vector-graphics-svg-export-of-figures... done.The projects are downloaded to the directory specified by the --to flag, together
with a manifest.json file that describes them. The manifest is an object with
a key "projects", whose value is an array of objects that look like this:
{
"author": "Juerg Schwizer",
"author_url": "http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/8708",
"date_submitted": "10 Apr 2005",
"date_updated": "17 Sep 2012",
"name": "7401-scalable-vector-graphics-svg-export-of-figures",
"summary": "Converts 3D and 2D MATLAB plots to the scalable vector format (SVG).",
"tags": [
"3d",
"animation",
"blur",
"converter",
"data export",
"figure",
"graphics",
"image processing",
"light",
"plot2svg",
"plotting",
"scalable",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specialized",
"svg",
"svg filters",
"vector"
],
"title": "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export of Figures",
"url": "http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7401-scalable-vector-graphics-svg-export-of-figures"
}