Get a page title from URL

Author: straps

24-express-nowjs/server.js

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-
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 var express=require('express'), app = express.createServer();
 app.listen(8000);
 

29-http-get-page-title.js

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+console.log('http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.5/api/http.html#http.request');
+
+var http=require('http'), url=require('url');
+var u=url.parse(process.argv.length>2?process.argv[2]:'http://www.delicious.com/straps');
+
+console.dir(u);
+
+var options = {
+	host: u.host,
+	port: u.port||80,
+	path: u.pathname||'/'
+};
+
+console.dir(options);
+
+http.get(options, function(res) {
+	var body='', title='';
+	res.on('data', function (chunk) {
+		body+=chunk;
+		if (!title && /<title>.*<\/title>/im.test(body)){
+			console.log('data arrived, testing...');
+			title=body.match(/<title>(.*)<\/title>/im)[1];
+		}
+	});
+	res.on('end', function(){
+		console.log('title: '+unescape(title));
+	});
+}).on('error', function(e) {
+	console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
+});