How can I retrieve the page title of a webpage using Python?

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