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March 23, 2005

Function to get Page Title from a URL

I wrote a simple function today that grabs a url, and parses out the title of the page from the url:

<cffunction name="getPageTitle" returntype="string" output="false">
	<cfargument name="pageurl" type="string" required="true">
	<cfhttp method="get" redirect="true" url="#arguments.pageurl#" throwonerror="true"></cfhttp>
	<cfreturn ReReplace(cfhttp.fileContent, ".*<title>([^<>]*)</title>.*", "\1")>
</cffunction>

<cfoutput>#getPageTitle("http://www.macromedia.com/")#</cfoutput>

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On 03/23/2005 at 7:33:01 PM MST Ryan Guill wrote:

nice. You ought to submit it to cflib.org

On 03/23/2005 at 8:33:30 PM MST David wrote:

ReReplaceNoCase

On 03/23/2005 at 8:35:58 PM MST David wrote:

Oops, a bit too quick with the old post button! That should have said:

Cheers Ryan,

How about using a ReReplaceNoCase it allow for HTML like: <TITLE>My Site</TITLE>?

cheers

David

On 03/27/2005 at 3:26:11 PM MST Ethan Cane wrote:

Hi there...

Copied and pasted this code block.

Have updated it to now return a complete anchor with href and title attributes.

Works like a charm.

Very inventive thinking. Will definitely come in handy at some point.

Cheers

On 08/17/2005 at 1:09:35 AM MDT jaded wrote:

hi,

will this work using php? =)

On 01/27/2006 at 3:32:28 PM MST Terrence Ryan wrote:

Thanks for sharing this. I wanted to do the same thing today, but I'm not so great with the regular expressions.

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