Function to get Page Title from a URL

by Pete Freitag

I wrote a simple CFML / ColdFusion 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("https://www.petefreitag.com/")#</cfoutput>

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Comments

Ryan Guill

nice. You ought to submit it to cflib.org

Ethan Cane

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

Tom

I really enjoy reading your articles. Keep up the great work. TBoardenson