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

Use soup.select_one to target title tag

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

r = requests.get('url')
soup = bs(r.content, 'lxml')
print(soup.select_one('title').text)