(.*?)<.title>/i,1] Nice. I tested your code and it works for me. But my reading of the docs says that it shouldn't work: new() doesn't open a connection, and get(), "Gets data from path on the connected-to host." The docs seem to want you to do something like: resp_obj = Net::HTTP.get_response('http://www.google.com', '/index.html') page = resp_obj.body -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-01-28T13:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting Data from a Webpage

William James wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> require 'net/http'
> puts Net::HTTP.new('www.google.com').get('/').
>   body[/<title>(.*?)<.title>/i,1]

Nice.  I tested your code and it works for me.  But my reading of the 
docs says that it shouldn't work:  new() doesn't open a connection, and 
get(), "Gets data from path on the connected-to host."   The docs seem 
to want you to do something like:

resp_obj = Net::HTTP.get_response('http://www.google.com', 
'/index.html')
page = resp_obj.body
-- 
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