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

This is probably overkill for such a simple task, but if you plan to do more than that, then it's saner to start from these tools (mechanize, BeautifulSoup) because they are much easier to use than the alternatives (urllib to get content and regexen or some other parser to parse html)

Links: BeautifulSoup mechanize

#!/usr/bin/env python
#coding:utf-8

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from mechanize import Browser

#This retrieves the webpage content
br = Browser()
res = br.open("https://www.google.com/")
data = res.get_data() 

#This parses the content
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
title = soup.find('title')

#This outputs the content :)
print title.renderContents()