From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2008-01-27T13:08:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting Data from a Webpage

On Jan 26, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Tj Superfly wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew a way to extract the web page title off
> of a specific URL that you input into a program?
>
> I give it the URL, say www.google.com. It then gives me "Google" -  
> it's
> title.
>
> Then also, is there anyway that the program could extract the next 5
> characters - after a certain phrase that doesn't change on the  
> webpage?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!
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>

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

It's a snap.