websave not working properly and giving error "IP address could not be determined"

I am using MATLAB R2018a and want to read and copy the content from a url and write it in a .txt file. but websave is not working properly and giving the error mentioned below. it is basically removing "/" from the url due to which url is not found. I am not getting why it is responding like this ....

CODE

bundle_url = 'http://data.votchallenge.net/vot2016/main/description.json';

data = webread(bundle_url)

ERROR

Error using webread (line 122)

The IP address of "data.votchallenge.netvot2016maindescription.json" could not be determined.

I have also tried urlwrite but it is only returning the word "Found" in the .txt file.

Furthermore, I have tried the code given by Matlab Examples but it is also giving the same error.

MATLAB EXAMPLE

api = 'http://climatedataapi.worldbank.org/climateweb/rest/v1/';

url = [api 'country/cru/tas/year/USA'];

S = webread(url)

ERROR

Error using webread (line 122)

The IP address of "climatedataapi.worldbank.orgclimatewebrestv1countrycrutasyearUSA" could not be determined.

Can anyone help me with this issue ??? any type of help will be appreciated. Thankyou in advance for your time and help. :)

Answer 1

[Swapnil Tatiya]

Hi @hiba madiha,

Could you please try the same code with latest matlab version, because when I run it on matlab online I'm able to fetch the data from the links.

Hope this helps.