# phpman > perldoc > URI::Title

## NAME
    [URI::Title](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/URI%3A%3ATitle/markdown) - get the titles of things on the web in a sensible way

## VERSION
    version 1.902

## SYNOPSIS
      use [URI::Title](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/URI%3A%3ATitle/markdown) 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.

## 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@jerakeen.org>>, original author, 2004-2012.

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

    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.