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urltitle uses Python 3.7 to return the page title or header-based description for a given URL. Its intended primary use is the inclusion of the returned value in conversations. As a disclaimer, note that the returned title is not guaranteed to be accurate due to many possible factors.
og:title
and twitter:title
if the title
tag is unavailable.https
and otherwise http
is made for a URL with a missing scheme, e.g. git-scm.com/downloads.urltitle
at the desired level.og:title
or twitter:title
over title
tagPython ≥3.7 is required due to a reference
to SSLCertVerificationError
.
To install the package, run:
pip install urltitle
from urltitle import URLTitleReader
reader = URLTitleReader(verify_ssl=True)
# Titles for HTML content
reader.title('https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/health/insect-decline-study-intl/index.html')
"Insect numbers in precipitous decline could have 'catastrophic' consequences, warns study - CNN"
reader.title('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53YvP6gdD7U')
'Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) - MIT - YouTube'
# Titles for URLs with a missing scheme
reader.title('www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-army/army-calls-base-housing-hazards-unconscionable-details-steps-to-protect-families-idUSKCN1Q4275')
"Army calls base housing hazards 'unconscionable,' details steps to protect families | Reuters"
reader.title('reddit.com/r/FoodNerds/comments/arb6qj')
'Paternal high-fat diet transgenerationally impacts hepatic immunometabolism. - PubMed - NCBI : FoodNerds'
reader.title('neverssl.com')
'NeverSSL - helping you get online'
# Titles for non-ASCII URLs
reader.title('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanattō')
'Amanattō - Wikipedia'
reader.title('https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Accueil_principal')
"Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre"
# Titles for PDFs having title metadata
reader.title('https://www.diabetes.org.br/publico/images/pdf/artificial-sweeteners-induce-glucose-intolerance-by-altering-the-gut-microbiota.pdf')
'Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota'
reader.title('https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/detection-of-glyphosate-in-malformed-piglets-2161-0525.1000230.pdf')
'Detection of Glyphosate in Malformed Piglets'
# Titles for other content showing Content-Type and Content-Length as available:
reader.title('https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2019/02/190213142720_1_540x360.jpg')
'(image/jpeg) (54K)'
reader.title('https://kdnuggets.com/rss')
'(application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8)'
reader.title('https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/29/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-29-1.2.iso')
'(application/octet-stream) (2G)'
# Titles for substituted URLs as per configuration:
reader.title('https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04704.pdf')
'[1902.04704] Neural network models and deep learning - a primer for biologists'
reader.title('https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/postmedj00315-0056.pdf')
"Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration"
reader.title('https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1d76/d4561b594b5c5b5250edb43122d85db07262.pdf')
'Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing. - Semantic Scholar'
An error is expected to raise the urltitle.URLTitleError
exception.
For any site-specific customizations, update (but ideally not replace)
urltitle.config.NETLOC_OVERRIDES
with the relevant sites using the preexisting entries in it as examples.
Refer to overrides.py
.
The site of a URL is as defined and returned by the URLTitleReader().netloc(url)
method in
urltitle.py
.
The following examples show various URLs and their corresponding sites for the purpose of entering site-specific customizations:
URL | Site |
---|---|
https://www.google.com/search?q=asdf | google.com |
https://google.com/search?q=hjkl | google.com |
google.com/search?q=qwer | google.com |
google.com | google.com |
GOOGLE.COM | google.com |
gOogLE.com | google.com |
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | drive.google.com |
https://help.github.com/en/ | help.github.com |
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch | github.com |
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F8POA7U | amazon.com |
https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/ | rise.cs.berkeley.edu |
https://www.swansonvitamins.com/web-specials | swansonvitamins.com |
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We found that urltitle demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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