Question

I need to do what a bookmarklet does but from my page directly.

I need to pull the document.title property of a web page given that url.

So say a user types in http://www.google.com, I want to be able to somehow pull up google.com maybe in an iframe and than access the document.title property.

I know that bookmarklets ( the javacript that runs from bookmark bar ) can access the document.title property of any site the user is on and then ajax that information to the server.

This is essentially what I want to do but from my web page directly with out the use of a bookmarklet.

Answer 1

According to This question
You can achive this using PHP, try this code :

    <?php

function getTitle($Url){
    $str = file_get_contents($Url);
    if(strlen($str)>0){
        preg_match("/\<title\>(.*)\<\/title\>/",$str,$title);
        return $title[1];
    }
}
//Example:
echo getTitle("http://www.washingtontimes.com/");

?>

However, i assume it is possible to read file content with JS and do the same logic of searching for the tags.

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