Fetching the title of a website

Question

Hi there,

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,

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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