Regex to extract title from webpage source

Question

Following regex works fine for me for most of url. But in case of few url, it does not give title, though source code has title.

$data = file_get_contents($url);
$title = get_title($data);
echo $title;
function get_title($html) 
    {
        return preg_match('!<title>(.*?)</title>!i', $html, $matches) ? $matches[1] : '';
    }

Here is the demo : DEMO

i think that this question has been answered before here in SOF, check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13510124/regular-expression-to-get-page-title — Ma'moon Al-Akash, Nov 26 '13 at 06:03
From your demo, it looks like the issue isn't with your regex, but is with getting the page contents in the first place via `file_get_contents()`. — ajp15243, Nov 26 '13 at 06:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 26 '13 at 06:06

As a solution to your problem please try executing following code snippet

<?php
 $url= 'http://www.indianic.com';
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 $result=curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch); 
 //echo $result;  
$title = get_title($result);
 echo $title;
function get_title($html) 
{
            return preg_match('!<title>(.*?)</title>!i', $html, $matches) ? $matches[1] : '';
}
?>

no need of replacing file_get_contents to curl call, regex needs to be fixed — Nishant, Nov 26 '13 at 06:11

Nishant · Answer 2 · 2013-11-26T06:13:12.667

1

Try this one,

 return preg_match('/<title[^>]*>(.*?)<\\/title>/ims', $html, $matches) ? $matches[1] : '';

Checked and working

$url='http://www.ndtv.com/';
    $data = file_get_contents($url);
    $title = preg_match('/<title[^>]*>(.*?)<\/title>/ims', $data, $matches) ? $matches[1] : '';
    echo $title;

OUTPUT :- NDTV.com: India, Business, Bollywood, Cricket, Video and Breaking News

edited Nov 26 '13 at 06:13

answered Nov 26 '13 at 06:06

Nishant

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Reason for that is file_get_contents() not working for facebook, try this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7437688/loading-fb-thru-php-file-get-contents-throws-you-are-using-an-incompatible-we – Nishant Nov 26 '13 at 06:30

Regex to extract title from webpage source

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