Question

How to get the title element from URL using Regex() in C#

Answer 1

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace ConsoleApplication_C_Sharp
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.collectivesolver.com/");
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
            {
                Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();
                StreamReader sr = null;

                if (response.CharacterSet == null)
                {
                    sr = new StreamReader(receiveStream);
                }
                else
                {
                    sr = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.GetEncoding(response.CharacterSet));
                }

                string htmlText = sr.ReadToEnd();

                Console.WriteLine(GetTitle(htmlText));

                response.Close();
                sr.Close();
            }
        }
        static string GetTitle(string htmlText)
        {
            Match m = Regex.Match(htmlText, @"<title>\s*(.+?)\s*</title>");

            if (m.Success)
                return m.Groups[1].Value;

            return "";
        }
    }
}


/*
run:
  
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*/

 

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Answer 2

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace ConsoleApplication_C_Sharp
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
            {
                string htmlText = client.DownloadString("http://seek4info.com/");

                Console.WriteLine(GetTitle(htmlText));
            }
        }
        static string GetTitle(string htmlText)
        {
            Match m = Regex.Match(htmlText, @"<title>\s*(.+?)\s*</title>");

            if (m.Success)
                return m.Groups[1].Value;

            return "";
        }
    }
}


/*
run:
  
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*/

 

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