NAME

       URI::Title - get the titles of things on the web in a sensible way

VERSION

       version 1.904

SYNOPSIS

         use URI::Title qw( title );
         my $title = title('http://microsoft.com');
         print "Title is $title\n";

DESCRIPTION

       I keep having to find the title of things on the web. This seems like a really simple
       request, just get() the object, parse for a title tag, you're done. Ha, I wish. There are
       several problems with this approach:

       What if the resource is on a very slow server? Do we wait for ever or what?
       What if the resource is a 900 gig file? You don't want to download that.
       What if the page title isn't in a title tag, but is buried in the HTML somewhere?
       What if the resource is an MP3 file, or a word document or something?
       ...

       So, let's solve these issues once.

METHODS

       only one, the title(url) method. Call it with an url, get the title if possible, undef if
       it wasn't. Very simple.

SEE ALSO

       WWW::GetPageTitle - similar this module, but just handles web pages.  The author of that
       module suggests you should use "URI::Title".

NOTES

       Embedded title metadata of png files can be extracted if you have installed either
       Image::ExifTool or Image::PNG::Libpng.

TODO

       Many, many, many things. Still unimplemented:

       Get titles of MP3 files, Word Docs, PDFs, etc.
       Configurable.. well, anything, in fact. Timeout would be a good start.
       Better error reporting.

AUTHORS

       Tom Insam <tom@jerakeen.org>, original author, 2004-2012.

       Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book@cpan.org>, maintainer, 2014.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2004 Tom Insam.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

CREDITS

       Invented because of a conversation with rjp, who contributed some eyeball-melting and as-
       yet-unused code to get titles from MP3s and PDFs, and hex, who has also solved the
       problem, and got bits done in a nicer way than I did.