loadHTML - Pull only headers to retrieve meta?

Question

I am using a function with loadHTML($url) to retrieve meta tags from my other site.

It works but page load times increase by 4-5 seconds.

The target pages are bit heavy, Is it possible to load just the header of remote ?

or is there any alternative ?

try to look at this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1378915/header-only-retrieval-in-php-via-curl — elegisandi, Jul 25 '17 at 06:44
@elegisandi that's talking about http headers, meta tags aren't in those. — user3942918, Jul 25 '17 at 06:49
oops! sorry. yea misunderstood it. i dont think theres a way to do that — elegisandi, Jul 25 '17 at 06:52
If all you want is data from meta tags then create a simple api on your other site that returns only that. — user3942918, Jul 26 '17 at 03:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '17 at 08:17

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It is 'bit' better now. I think the function still pull entire html but parse only till

I guess an api as suggested by "Paul Crovella" will resolve the issue completely.

answered Jul 26 '17 at 08:17

Arsh Dhillon

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '17 at 07:21

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Yes, you can download only headers using HEAD HTTP method instead GET. To make request i recommend use Guzzle

answered Jul 25 '17 at 07:21

Grey

meta tags are not in http headers, this is not what they're after. – user3942918 Jul 26 '17 at 03:35
Oh, i mean another head. Then @PaulCrovella, you can use Guzzle [streams](http://guzzle3.readthedocs.io/http-client/response.html#streaming-responses) for this case. Just abort when you find closing head tag. – Grey Jul 26 '17 at 17:19

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