Displaying the tittle

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I have this code but it does not seem to be displaying the tittle on label2 when an input such as "https://www.google.com" is taken from the user in textBox1. I am using a windows forms application.

What I have tried:

string title = Regex.Match(textBox1.Text, @"\<title\b[^>]*\>\s*(?<Title>[\s\S]*?)\</title\>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups["Title"].Value;
            label2.Text = title;

Posted 10-Oct-21 6:34am

candijen

Updated 10-Oct-21 7:58am

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Richard Deeming 11-Oct-21 5:08am

You're now even further from the correct answer than you were last week!
Getting the tittle of a webpage from URL.[^]

candijen 11-Oct-21 12:12pm

what?

Richard Deeming 11-Oct-21 12:17pm

In last week's question, you took the URL entered by the user, made a web request to load the content of that URL, and tried to extract the title from it.

In this version, you're trying to extract the <title> element directly from the URL string, which doesn't contain the <title> element.

Solution 1 has given you the correct answer. But it's the same answer you were given last week, when you were actually closer to the answer.

candijen 11-Oct-21 13:18pm

huh well I managed to get it tho.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-10T07:58:00

Solution 1

The only way to get the title of a website is to fetch the page and extract the text in the title tag.

This should help: Html Agility pack | Html Agility Pack[^] - it can read a site from a URL, and extract the title in a couple of lines of code.

Posted 10-Oct-21 7:58am

OriginalGriff