The Wolfram Language provides many mechanisms for interfacing with the web—from exporting graphics and structured interactive documents to interacting with web APIs, importing web data, setting up cloud-based web services, and manipulating URLs and other web constructs.

Creating Static Content »

Export — export any graphic, expression, or notebook to all standard web formats

"HTML"  ▪  "GIF"  ▪  "JPEG"  ▪  "XHTML+MathML"  ▪  "PDF"  ▪  "MP3"  ▪  "MP4"  ▪  ...

Hyperlink — define a button that jumps to a URL

EmbeddedHTML — raw HTML directly embedded in a document

Content in the Cloud

CloudDeploy — deploy to the Wolfram Cloud etc.

ExportForm — define a format for a deployed object (e.g. "HTML", "CloudCDF", ...)

EmbedCode — generate code for embedding on webpages

Active Web Elements

APIFunction — specify a web API to create

FormObject — define the structure of a form

FormFunction — specify an active web form to create

FormPage — specify an active form page for repeated computations

GalleryView — specify a gallery of hyperlinked images or other objects

Delayed — an expression to evaluate whenever it is visited on the web

Creating Arbitrary Raw Web Content

XMLTemplate — define an HTML template with <wolfram:...> etc. tags

TemplateApply — apply an HTML template to create an HTML page

HTTPResponse  ▪  HTTPRedirect  ▪  ExternalBundle  ▪  URLDispatcher

HTTP Requests & Responses »

URLExecute — execute a URL, importing the results generated

URLRead — send an HTTP request, getting back the corresponding HTTP response

URLSubmit — submit an HTTP request for asynchronous execution

URLDownload — download the contents of one or more URLs to files

URLDownloadSubmit  ▪  $Cookies  ▪  HTTPRequest  ▪  HTTPResponse  ▪  ...

Authentication

Authentication  ▪  AuthenticationDialog  ▪  SecuredAuthenticationKey

URL Manipulation »

URLEncode  ▪  URLDecode  ▪  URLQueryEncode  ▪  URLBuild  ▪  URLShorten  ▪  ...

Web Import »

Import — import from web URLs, extracting data and content

"HTML"  ▪  "XML"  ▪  "ApacheLog"  ▪  "CommonLog"  ▪  "RSS"  ▪  ...

Web Browser Automation »

WebExecute — execute commands through a web browser

StartWebSession  ▪  WebSessionObject  ▪  WebWindowObject  ▪  WebElementObject  ▪  ...

Web Search, etc.

WebSearch  ▪  WebImageSearch  ▪  WebImage  ▪  ...

Accessing External Web APIs

ServiceExecute — call curated or other web APIs

Web Services »

InstallService — install web services from a WSDL description

Raw XML Manipulation »

XMLElement, XMLObject — general symbolic representation of XML

Network Operations »

PingTime — test the time to reach a network host

$NetworkConnected — whether the network interface on your computer is active

HostLookup  ▪  NetworkPacketCapture  ▪  ...