Is it possible to automate my login to my Mathworks account using MATLAB?

In reading several posts, it appears that passing a username and password to a secure WEB site is possible. But it also appears there are multiple approaches that may/may not work. So what I'm attempting to do is come up with a somewhat standard approach to automating the login process to secure WEB sites where the user views a WEB site with fields for a username and password (no popup windows).

I'm starting with Mathworks own login URL:

https://www.mathworks.com/accesslogin/login.do?uri=/accesslogin/myAccount.do

I'm also using MATLAB R2015a, which contains several new functions pertaining to REST Web Service interfaces - which may/may not be applicable to what I'm trying to accomplish.

Is it feasible to automate the login process using only MATLAB functions? If so, how?

If not, is there some industry standard approach to accomplishing this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Abhishek Pandey]

Hello Brad,

I understand that you want to automate logging in to MathWorks account using MATLAB.

You can do this using the “webread” function. I believe you can put your username and password fields using “weboptions”. The following link contains information that might be useful to you.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/internet-file-access.html

I hope this helps!

- Abhishek

[Brad]

Abhishek, I thought this was the case also. Perhaps I am executing the functions out of order, but when I direct MATLAB to Mathworks own login URL I get tot he login page, but no further.