Python Web Scraping: Check whether a page contains a title or not

Last update on December 21 2024 07:49:10 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Write a Python program to check whether a page contains a title or not.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.error import HTTPError
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def getTitle(url):
    try:
        html = urlopen(url)
    except HTTPError as e:
        return None
    try:
        bsObj = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), "lxml")
        title = bsObj.body.h1
    except AttributeError as e:
        return None
    return title
    
    title = getTitle(url)
    if title == None:
      return "Title could not be found"
    else:
      return title

print(getTitle("https://www.w3resource.com/"))
print(getTitle("http://www.example.com/"))

Sample Output:

None
<h1>Example Domain</h1>
 

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