1URI::Title(3)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        URI::Title(3)
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NAME

6       URI::Title - get the titles of things on the web in a sensible way
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SYNOPSIS

9         use URI::Title qw( title );
10         my $title = title('http://microsoft.com');
11         print "Title is $title\n";
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DESCRIPTION

14       I keep having to find the title of things on the web. This seems like a
15       really simple request, just get() the object, parse for a title tag,
16       you're done. Ha, I wish. There are several problems with this approach:
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18       What if the resource is on a very slow server? Do we wait for ever or
19       what?
20       What if the resource is a 900 gig file? You don't want to download
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22       What if the page title isn't in a title tag, but is buried in the HTML
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24       What if the resource is an MP3 file, or a word document or something?
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27       So, let's solve these issues once.
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METHODS

30       only one, the title(url) method. Call it with an url, get the title if
31       possible, undef if it wasn't. Very simple.
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TODO

34       Many, many, many things. Still unimplemented:
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36       Get titles of MP3 files, Word Docs, PDFs, etc.
37       Configurable.. well, anything, in fact. Timeout would be a good start.
38       Better error reporting.
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AUTHORS

41       Tom Insam <tom@jerakeen.org>, original author, 2004-2012.
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43       Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book@cpan.org>, maintainer, 2014.
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45       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
46       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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CREDITS

49       Invented because of a conversation with rjp, who contributed some
50       eyeball-melting and as-yet-unused code to get titles from MP3s and
51       PDFs, and hex, who has also solved the problem, and got bits done in a
52       nicer way than I did.
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