THREDDS Crawler for Matlab

A simple Matlab based THREDDS (TDS) catalog crawler. Parses TDS catalog records in to a matlab data structure

Connected with work conducted on the python based thredds crawler

Usage:

In a MATLAB command window type:

datasets = crawl_thredds;

Optional Inputs

• url = URL to the thredds data server you'd like to crawl (FRF waves by default)
• extension = extension of data files you want to open (.nc by default)

Output

• data = Matlab structure the following fields:
  • id - Dataset ID
  • name - Dataset name
  • catalog_url - Dataset url

Coming Soon:

• Logging
• Downloading datasets
• Harvesting metadata