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# urlencode

Replace special characters in URLs with escape characters.

## 📝 Syntax

* new\_url = webread(url)

## 📥 Input argument

* url - a string: URL to a web service.

## 📤 Output argument

* new\_url - a string: encoded url.

## 📄 Description

urlencode replaces special characters in URLs with escape characters.

Special characters in URLs need to be replaced with escape characters. For example, spaces should be replaced with '%20'.

## 💡 Example

```matlab
url = 'https://httpbin.org/get?query=hello world';
res = urlencode(url)

```

## 🔗 See also

[webread](/nelson/markdown/en/webtools/webread.md).

## 🕔 History

| Version | 📄 Description  |
| ------- | --------------- |
| 1.11.0  | initial version |