Export data from website

I am trying to export betting odds from the following link: https://www.unibet.eu/betting/sports/filter/football/netherlands/eredivisie/matches

The plan is to export these number (let's say) every hour and then analyse how they change over time. Right now I have the following code with which I have imported the data from this link.

block = urlread('https://www.unibet.eu/betting/sports/filter/football/netherlands/eredivisie/matches');

The problem now is that I do not have the knowledge to extract the relevant data. The relevant data would be:

The teams that are playing, the date and time at which they are playing, the odds that unibet gives.

Does anyone know how to do this and is willing to help me with this problem?

Thank you for reading.

[Rik]

Everybody willing to help would have to do the same thing as you: look at the output of the urlread function.

You know where to look on that page for the relevant information. strfind will probably help you out a lot.

You should also note that not every website allows scraping of data.

[Lodewijk Pleij]

The problem appears to be that the website is written by javascript. So the information is not extracted by the command webread.

[Rik]

Then you will have to dig. The information is comming from somewhere. Sometimes you can find the JSON data that the JS is using to create the content. I would suggest investigating the page with your browser debugging tools.

[Lodewijk Pleij]

The webpage loads the information when you open it in your browser. That is why the information cannot be uploaded with webread only. I will have to try and let matlab open the webbrowser or something like that. I found some videos about it on youtube, but they are for python only.

[Rik]

That might not be required. Some websites use Javascript to dynamically load data. The backend is usually loaded in JSON format. If you use your browser debugging tools (ctrl+shift+i on Chrome) you might be able to find the direct URL.

My first try turned up a page like this:

https://www.unibet.eu/sportsbook-feeds/views/filter/football/netherlands/eredivisie/matches?includeParticipants=true&useCombined=false&ncid=1615380512

If this is indeed the correct URL you only have to find you if you need to update that ncid field.