# Scrape Website Title
Scraping the title from a website is simple. The following examples show how it works using PHPScraper.
# Simple Example
Very simple example of how to scrape the title of a website:
$web = new \Spekulatius\PHPScraper\PHPScraper; // Navigate to the test page - this one does contain a title-tag "Lorem Ipsum" $web->go('https://test-pages.phpscraper.de/meta/lorem-ipsum.html'); /** * Contains: * * <title>Lorem Ipsum</title> */ // Fetch the title. This will return: "Lorem Ipsum" var_dump($web->title); # Missing Title
null will be returned if the title is missing:
$web = new \Spekulatius\PHPScraper\PHPScraper; // Navigate to the test page - this one doesn't contain a title-tag. $web->go('https://test-pages.phpscraper.de/meta/missing.html'); // Fetch the title. This will return null. var_dump($web->title); Note: This is the default behaviour: If a tag wasn't found because it's missing in the source HTML, null will be returned. If an iteratable item is empty (e.g. scraping images from a page without images), an empty array will be returned.
# Special Characters
Load a website title with German Umlaute
$web = new \Spekulatius\PHPScraper\PHPScraper; /** * Navigate to the test page. It contains: * * <title>A page with plenty of German umlaute everywhere (ä ü ö)</title> */ $web->go('https://test-pages.phpscraper.de/meta/german-umlaute.html'); // Print the title: "A page with plenty of German umlaute everywhere (ä ü ö)" echo $web->title; It should work similarly with any UTF-8 characters.
# HTML Entities
HTML Entities should be resolved
$web = new \Spekulatius\PHPScraper\PHPScraper; /** * Navigate to the test page. Contains: * * <title>Cat & Mouse</title> */ $web->go('https://test-pages.phpscraper.de/meta/html-entities.html'); // Print the title: "Cat & Mouse" echo $web->title; TIP
Entities and special characters have been considered throughout the library. If you find a place where these don't work as expected, please raise an issue (opens new window).