Fetching the title of a website

Question

I browsed through SO, but what I found were examples "how to manipulate a piece of html". But in my case, I want to fetch a HTML file by a given URL and just parse the websites title not the whole file.

Is there any way to do this with jQuery or any jQuery like framework?

regards,

How are you trying to fetch the html file? – David Thomas Jul 04 '10 at 10:16 — David Thomas, Jul 04 '10 at 10:16

redsquare · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-04T11:48:45.697

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The only way is to use a server side proxy which makes the web request and parses out the title which you can return to your page.

See a php example here

For python try the urllib

edited Jul 04 '10 at 11:48

answered Jul 04 '10 at 10:30

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Right +1. Being able to do this with the browser only would open the door to many security issues. – Luca Matteis Jul 04 '10 at 10:52
Any Python / AppEngine example out there? =) – Julius F Jul 04 '10 at 11:23

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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2911930 looks to have the answer

$.get("yoururl", function(response){
    var theTitle = (/<title>(.*?)<\/title>/m).exec(response)[1];
    alert(theTitle);
});

edit As pointed out by the commenters, you'll be restricted by SOP to pages only within your domain. And, generally, parsing HTML with regular expressions is a Bad Thing, but not too bad in this case.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Jul 04 '10 at 10:28

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This will not work unless the url is on the same domain as the calling page – redsquare Jul 04 '10 at 10:31
You're supposing OP only requests urls from his own domain. This won't work as soon as a foreign domain comes into play. Furthermore, parsing html with regular expressions is a bad idea in general. – jAndy Jul 04 '10 at 10:32

Fetching the title of a website

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