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Asked: 2026-05-11T08:34:19+00:00

Is there a way to extract HTML page title using Perl? I know it

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Is there a way to extract HTML page title using Perl? I know it can be passed as a hidden variable during form submit and then retrieved in Perl that way but I was wondering if there is a way to do this without the submit?

Like, lets say i have an HTML page like this:

<html><head><title>TEST</title></head></html>

and then in Perl I want to do :

$q -> h1('something');

How can I replace ‘something’ dynamically with what is contained in <title> tags?

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  1. I would use pQuery. It works just like jQuery.

    You can say:

    use pQuery; my $page = pQuery('http://google.com/'); my $title = $page->find('title'); say 'The title is: ', $title->html;

    Replacing stuff is similar:

    $title->html('New Title'); say 'The entirety of google.com with my new title is: ', $page->html;

    You can pass an HTML string to the pQuery constructor, which it sounds like you want to do.

    Finally, if you want to use arbitrary HTML as a ‘template’, and then ‘refine’ that with Perl commands, you want to use Template::Refine.

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