Generate create table DDL from View - sql

Question

I have a read access only oracle db that exposes Views for me to consume and I want to have local db where I insert the above data. To do that I need to generate create table DDL based on a views and I've found no way to do this.
To clarify I've used
SELECT dbms_metadata.get_ddl('VIEW','table','schema') FROM dual
The result of that statement is
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW "SCHEMA"."VIEW_NAME" ("ID","NAME") AS
SELECT * FROM SQUARE S
JOIN SHAPE SH ON( S.ID==SH.ID)
where what I want to generate is
CREATE TABLE table_name (
ID NUMBER,
NAME VARCHER2(100),
Also I can't just run
CREATE TABLE new_table
AS (SELECT * FROM view WHERE 1=2);
As the db I can read I can't create tables in.
Is there any tool that allows to run this with 2 db connections ? would that work?
EDIT: For those that can't figure how to do the database Link here is a garbage throwaway script that worked for me
DECLARE
starting boolean := TRUE;
r_owner varchar2(30) := '$1';
r_table_name varchar2(30) := '';
BEGIN
FOR v IN ( --views from a owner
SELECT
VIEW_NAME
FROM
all_views
WHERE owner = r_owner)
LOOP
r_table_name:= v.view_name;
dbms_output.put_line('create table ' || r_owner || '.' || r_table_name || '(');
starting := TRUE;
FOR r IN ( -- columns from table
SELECT
column_name,
data_type,
data_length,
data_precision,
nullable
FROM
all_tab_columns
WHERE
table_name = upper(r_table_name)
AND owner = upper(r_owner)
ORDER BY column_id)
LOOP
IF starting THEN
starting := FALSE;
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line(',');
END IF;
IF r.data_type = 'NUMBER' THEN
IF r.data_length = 22 THEN
dbms_output.put(' '|| r.column_name || ' NUMBER');
ELSE
dbms_output.put(' '|| r.column_name || ' NUMBER(' || r.data_length || ')');
END IF;
ELSIF r.data_type = 'FLOAT' THEN
dbms_output.put(' '|| r.column_name || ' FLOAT(' || r.data_precision || ')');
ELSIF instr(r.data_type, 'CHAR') >0 then
dbms_output.put(' '|| r.column_name||' '||r.data_type||'('||r.data_length||')');
ELSE
dbms_output.put(' '|| r.column_name || ' ' || r.data_type);
END IF;
IF r.nullable = 'N' THEN
dbms_output.put(' NOT NULL');
END IF;
END LOOP;
dbms_output.put_line('');
dbms_output.put_line(' ); ');
dbms_output.put_line('');
END LOOP;
END;

Answer 1

In your local db, create a link to the 'read only' db:
CREATE DATABASE LINK READONLY_DB
CONNECT TO scott IDENTIFIED BY tiger
USING 'readonlydb';
Note, the USING 'readonbly' is referencing a tnsnames.ora entry for your readonly database. Substitute 'readonlydb' with the appropriate, correct value.
Then, with the db link created:
create table my_table as select * from readonly_table#readonly_db;
Where:
'readonly_table' represents the name of the table at the readonly database
'readonly_db' is the name of the database link you created in the first step.