perldoc > URI::Title(3pm)

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

VERSION
    version 1.904

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

DESCRIPTION
    I keep having to find the title of things on the web. This seems like a really simple request,
    just get() the object, parse for a title tag, you're done. Ha, I wish. There are several
    problems with this approach:

    What if the resource is on a very slow server? Do we wait for ever or what?
    What if the resource is a 900 gig file? You don't want to download that.
    What if the page title isn't in a title tag, but is buried in the HTML somewhere?
    What if the resource is an MP3 file, or a word document or something?
    ...

    So, let's solve these issues once.

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

SEE ALSO
    WWW::GetPageTitle - similar this module, but just handles web pages. The author of that module
    suggests you should use "URI::Title".

NOTES
    Embedded title metadata of png files can be extracted if you have installed either
    Image::ExifTool or Image::PNG::Libpng.

TODO
    Many, many, many things. Still unimplemented:

    Get titles of MP3 files, Word Docs, PDFs, etc.
    Configurable.. well, anything, in fact. Timeout would be a good start.
    Better error reporting.

AUTHORS
    Tom Insam <tom AT jerakeen.org>, original author, 2004-2012.

    Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book AT cpan.org>, maintainer, 2014.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2004 Tom Insam.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself.

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