Getting the title of a web page given the URL

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Is there any method that will return the title of the web page given its URL?

I don't mean the title of the current page which can be gotten from doing document.title, I mean getting the title of another web page.

Edited the question. Re-open? I don't see any reason to close aside from the bad wording. — tskuzzy, Jun 07 '12 at 21:42
@gdoron: The point is I reworded it so now it's a better-phrased question. So now we should re-open it IMO. — tskuzzy, Jun 07 '12 at 21:47
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7901760/how-can-i-get-the-title-of-a-webpage-given-the-url-an-external-url-using-jquer — starbeamrainbowlabs, Jan 27 '14 at 16:57
Possible duplicate of [How can I get the title of a webpage given the url (an external url) using JQuery/JS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7901760/how-can-i-get-the-title-of-a-webpage-given-the-url-an-external-url-using-jquer) — Paulo, Sep 12 '17 at 06:08

tskuzzy · Answer 1 · 2012-06-07T21:44:26.217

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You can't access this is the site is on a different domain. That would be a security violation of the same origin policy.

Otherwise, you could load the other web page into a hidden iframe and use this:

document.getElementById('myIframe').contentWindow.document.title;

Actually I semi-lied. It is a security violation to do this, but IE has a bug whereby you can access the content via VBScript. Not sure if this has been patched yet.

edited Jun 07 '12 at 21:44

answered Jun 07 '12 at 21:38

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In any browser this should work for same domain: `var x = window.open('url'); var title = x.document.title; x.close();` It may trigger popup blockers though. – Paul Jun 07 '12 at 21:47
Yeah that's why I prefer iframes. – tskuzzy Jun 07 '12 at 21:48
which will save time? Navigating to the URL and then getting the title or doing as you said above? – k.ken Jun 07 '12 at 22:05

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '12 at 21:38

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No.

No you cannot.

Not without some extra APIs

answered Jun 07 '12 at 21:38

Naftali

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+1, because I like those kind of answers to not real questions! – gdoron Jun 07 '12 at 21:39
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Yes it is possible if it is in the same domain. – Derek 朕會功夫 Jun 07 '12 at 22:17

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 07 '12 at 21:39

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maybe ajax can do this, but by primitive tools, you cant! (js is client side!)

answered Jun 07 '12 at 21:39

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score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 25 '18 at 07:02

Yes you can and its very simple.

chrome.topSites.get(function(info){ //fetching the top sites visited in chrome
    var xyz=document.getElementsByClassName('urclassname');
    for(var i=0;i<info.length;i++) {
       console.log(info[i]);  //check the data fetched by info
       xyz[i].setAttribute("urclassattribute",info[i].title); //set the title of the fetched url
    }
});

Suppose my top visited site is Facebook, so the console.log(info[i]) will give the value in the browser console as:

Object

title : "(3) Facebook" url : "https://www.facebook.com/" proto : constructor : ƒ Object() hasOwnProperty : ƒ hasOwnProperty() isPrototypeOf : ƒ isPrototypeOf() propertyIsEnumerable : ƒ propertyIsEnumerable() toLocaleString : ƒ toLocaleString() toString : ƒ toString() valueOf : ƒ valueOf() defineGetter : ƒ defineGetter() defineSetter : ƒ defineSetter() lookupGetter : ƒ lookupGetter() lookupSetter : ƒ lookupSetter() get proto : ƒ proto() set proto : ƒ proto()

So basically you get the title of the website.

This doesn't make any sense. What the question has anything to do with the top-visited site? — tejasvi88, Sep 27 '20 at 13:03

Getting the title of a web page given the URL

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