From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thamer Mahmoud Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get title of web page by url? Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:08:55 +0300 Message-ID: <87vd802nx4.fsf@zemblan.newkuwait.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280293808 22032 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2010 05:10:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:10:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 07:10:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odyu7-0007iS-1Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:10:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Odyu6-00042d-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60483 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Odytd-00042Y-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odytb-00041s-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44179) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odytb-00041k-Q9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdytX-0007YF-B7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:09:31 +0200 Original-Received: from 89.203.6.209 ([89.203.6.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:09:31 +0200 Original-Received: from thamer.mahmoud by 89.203.6.209 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:09:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.203.6.209 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S8wwSjD6tmyDw9ufkZEBosOl274= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74312 Archived-At: filebat Mark writes: > Such as, given "http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git", we will get the title > of this web page, which is "EmacsWiki: Git:". > > Function of w3m-current-title is quite close, but a standalone lisp function > is much preferred. Using the url.el package, (defun www-get-page-title (url) (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url) (goto-char 0) (re-search-forward "\\(.*\\)<[/]title>" nil t 1) (match-string 1))) (www-get-page-title "http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git") => "EmacsWiki: Git" hth, Thamer