How can I get the title of a webpage given the url (an external url) using JQuery/JS

Question

I am a newbie, so excuse me if this is a silly question ..

So what I was trying is to get the title of a URL using JQuery/JS. I dont want to load the content of the

Answer 1

You can also get the title of any webpage using this API

http://textance.herokuapp.com/title/

$.ajax({
      url: "http://textance.herokuapp.com/title/www.bbc.co.uk",
      complete: function(data) {
        alert(data.responseText);
      }
});