How do I extract an HTML title with Perl?
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Is there a way to extract HTML page title using Perl? I know it can be passed as a hidden variable during form submit and then retrieved in Perl that way but I was wondering if there is a way to do this without the submit?
Like, lets say i have an HTML page like this:
<html><head><title>TEST</title></head></html>
and then in Perl I want to do :
$q -> h1('something');
How can I replace 'something' dynamically with what is contained in <title> tags?
Solution
I would use pQuery. It works just like jQuery.
You can say:
use pQuery;
my $page = pQuery("http://google.com/");
my $title = $page->find('title');
say "The title is: ", $title->html;
Replacing stuff is similar:
$title->html('New Title');
say "The entirety of google.com with my new title is: ", $page->html;
You can pass an HTML string to the pQuery constructor, which it sounds like you want to do.
Finally, if you want to use arbitrary HTML as a "template", and then "refine" that with Perl commands, you want to use Template::Refine.
OTHER TIPS
HTML::HeadParser does this for you.
It's not clear to me what you are asking. You seem to be talking about something that could run in the user's browser, or at least something that already has an html page loaded.
If that's not the case, the answer is URI::Title.
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
my $url = 'http://www.google.com'|| die "Specify URL on the cmd line";
my $html = get ($url);
$html =~ m{<TITLE>(.*?)</TITLE>}gism;
print "$1\n";
The previous answer is wrong, if the HTML title tag is used more often then this can easily be overcome by checking to make sure that the title tag is valid (no tags in between).
my ($title) = $test_content =~ m/<title>([a-zA-Z\/][^>]+)<\/title>/si;
get the title name form the file.
my $spool = 0;
open my $fh, "<", $absPath or die $!;
#open ($fh, "<$tempfile" );
# wrtie the opening brace
print WFL "[";
while (<$fh>) {
# removes the new line from the line read
chomp;
# removes the leading and trailing spaces.
$_=~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
# case where the <title> and </title> occures in one line
# we print and exit in one instant
if (($_=~/$startstring/i)&&($_=~/$endstring/i)) {
print WFL "'";
my ($title) = $_=~ m/$startstring(.+)$endstring/si;
print WFL "$title";
print WFL "',";
last;
}
# case when the <title> is in one line and </title> is in other line
#starting <title> string is found in the line
elsif ($_=~/$startstring/i) {
print WFL "'";
# extract everything after <title> but nothing before <title>
my ($title) = $_=~ m/$startstring(.+)/si;
print WFL "$title";
$spool = 1;
}
# ending string </title> is found
elsif ($_=~/$endstring/i) {
# read everything before </title> and nothing above that
my ($title) = $_=~ m/(.+)$endstring/si;
print WFL " ";
print WFL "$title";
print WFL "',";
$spool = 0;
last;
}
# this will useful in reading all line between <title> and </title>
elsif ($spool == 1) {
print WFL " ";
print WFL "$_";
}
}
close $fh;
# end of getting the title name
If you just want to extract the page title you can use a regular expression. I believe that would be something like:
my ($title) = $html =~ m/<title>(.+)<\/title>/si;
where your HTML page is stored in the string $html. In si, the s stands for for single line mode (i.e., the dot also matches a newline) and i for ignore case.
