URI::Title - phpMan

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

VERSION
    version 1.902

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.

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.

    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.