Question

How can I retrieve the page title of a webpage (title html tag) using Python?

Answer 1

I’ll always use lxml for such tasks. You could use beautifulsoup as well.

import lxml.html t = lxml.html.parse(url) print(t.find(".//title").text) 

EDIT based on comment:

from urllib2 import urlopen from lxml.html import parse  url = "https://www.google.com" page = urlopen(url) p = parse(page) print(p.find(".//title").text)