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

Here's a simplified version of @Vinko Vrsalovic's answer:

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen("https://www.google.com"))
print soup.title.string

NOTE:

• soup.title finds the first title element anywhere in the html document

• title.string assumes it has only one child node, and that child node is a string

For beautifulsoup 4.x, use different import:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup