Easy way to get HTML Page Title and Meta Description?

[michael]

Hello

Is there an easy way in asp.net (VB) to get the Title of a Web Page
and the Meta Description of the page?

I was thinking about using a screen scrape and then looking for the
text in the string of the page but I'm wondering if there are any
properties that I could be using instead.

Thanks
M

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

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Is there an easy way in asp.net (VB) to get the Title of a Web Page
and the Meta Description of the page?

I was thinking about using a screen scrape and then looking for the
text in the string of the page but I'm wondering if there are any
properties that I could be using instead.

How are you referring to the web page?
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[MU]

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Is there an easy way in asp.net (VB) to get the Title of a Web Page
and the Meta Description of the page?

I was thinking about using a screen scrape and then looking for the
text in the string of the page but I'm wondering if there are any
properties that I could be using instead.

How are you referring to the web page?

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVPhttp://www.markrae.net

Ideally what I'm doing is having a textbox on my web form. The user
will then add a URL that they want to post to their profile. Then my
code will grab that URL and pull out the Title of the page and the
Description from the Metadata.

I'm just starting on this, so any suggestions on how to do it would be
great.

Thanks

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"MU" <mi*****@lonelyprogrammer.comwrote in message
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>>Is there an easy way in asp.net (VB) to get the Title of a Web Page
and the Meta Description of the page?

I was thinking about using a screen scrape and then looking for the
text in the string of the page but I'm wondering if there are any
properties that I could be using instead.

How are you referring to the web page?

Ideally what I'm doing is having a textbox on my web form. The user
will then add a URL that they want to post to their profile. Then my
code will grab that URL and pull out the Title of the page and the
Description from the Metadata.

I'm just starting on this, so any suggestions on how to do it would be
great.

I'm not aware of any other way than, as you mention, to open a web request
and then parse its HTML stream. Fortunately, this is extremely simple:
http://www.aspcode.net/Fetching-titl...ge-with-C.aspx
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[Martin Honnen]

MU wrote:

Ideally what I'm doing is having a textbox on my web form. The user
will then add a URL that they want to post to their profile. Then my
code will grab that URL and pull out the Title of the page and the
Description from the Metadata.

You can parse HTML documents with
http://www.codeplex.com/htmlagilitypack or with
http://wiki.developer.mindtouch.com/...mlReader_1.7.2

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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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