On May 22, 3:28 am, रवींदर ठाकुर (ravinder thakur) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any lib in python that provides a mechanism to get the title > of a web page ? also is there anything available to get a nice summary > like the way google shows below every link ?
It's not part of the standard lib but I really like using BeautifulSoup for this kind of thing: from urllib import urlopen from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup html = urlopen("http://www.google.com").read() soup = BeautifulSoup(html) print soup.title # '<title>Google</title>' print soup.title.renderContents() # 'Google' http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ - alex23 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list