downloading data with webread

I would like to download on a local folder files with extension .txt.gz. I tried using webread with options weboptions('KeyName','Accept-Encoding','KeyValue','gzip'), but I cannot understand how to simply save the file in .txt format. Any suggestions?

[Rik]

Do you want to save a file as .txt.gz or as .txt? Would a simple renaming be what you want, or should a .txt be extracted from the .gz?

[Nicola Borri]

I would like to have in my local folder the .txt file

Answer 1

[Rik]

You can use gunzip:

url = 'http://example.com/example.txt.gz';
gunzip(url);

If you can't download the file with that, you'll need websave as an intermediary:

url = 'http://example.com/example.txt.gz';
file = websave('example.txt.gz',url);
gunzip(file);