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Henry The Least
Henry The Least

Reputation: 649

How to extract title and meta description using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser?

How can I extract a page's title and meta description using the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser?

I just need the title of the page and the keywords in plain text.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 28173

Answers (9)

hitman47
hitman47

Reputation: 237

I found the easy way to take description 

$html = new simple_html_dom(); 
$html->load_file('your_url');
$title = $html->load('title')->simpletext; //<title>**Text from here**</title>
$description = $html->load("meta[name='description']", 0)->simpletext; //<meta name="description" content="**Text from here**">

If your line contains extra spaces, then try this

$title = trim($title);
$description = trim($description);

Upvotes: 0

Алексей Склейнов
Алексей Склейнов

Reputation: 31

$html->find('meta[name=keywords]',0)->attr['content'];
$html->find('meta[name=description]',0)->attr['content'];

Upvotes: 3

Laurence Tuck
Laurence Tuck

Reputation: 420

Taken from LeiXC's solution above, you need to use the simple html dom class:

$dom = new simple_html_dom();
$dom->load_file( 'websiteurl.com' );// put your own url in here for testing
$html = str_get_html($dom);
$descr = $html->find("meta[name=description]", 0);
$description = $descr->content;
echo $description;

I have tested this code and yes it is case sensitive (some meta tags use a capital D for description)

Here is some error checking for spelling errors:

if( is_object( $html->find("meta[name=description]", 0)) ){
    echo $html->find("meta[name=description]", 0)->content;
} elseif( is_object( $html->find("meta[name=Description]", 0)) ){
    echo $html->find("meta[name=Description]", 0)->content;
}

Upvotes: 4

LeviXC
LeviXC

Reputation: 1075

The correct answer is:

$html = str_get_html($html);
$descr = $html->find("meta[name=description]", 0);
$description = $descr->content;

The above code gets html into an object format, then the find method looks for a meta tag with the name description, and finally you need to return the value of the meta tag's content, not the innertext or plaintext as outlined by others.

This has been tested and used in live code. Best

Upvotes: 1

Sinatrya Yogi Rizal
Sinatrya Yogi Rizal

Reputation: 25

you can using php code and so simple to know. like here

$result = 'site.com'; $tags = get_meta_tags("html/".$result);

Upvotes: 1

Faraona
Faraona

Reputation: 1700

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file('some_url'); 

//To get Meta Title
$meta_title = $html->find("meta[name='title']", 0)->content;

//To get Meta Description
$meta_description = $html->find("meta[name='description']", 0)->content;

//To get Meta Keywords
$meta_keywords = $html->find("meta[name='keywords']", 0)->content;

NOTE: The names of meta tags are casesensitive!

Upvotes: 22

chuck911
chuck911

Reputation: 785

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file('http://www.google.com'); 
$title = $html->find('title',0)->innertext;

$html->find('title') will return an array

so you should use $html->find('title',0), so does meta[description]

Upvotes: 6

liuqing
liuqing

Reputation: 49

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file('xxx'); 
//put url or filename in place of xxx
$title = array_shift($html->find('title'))->innertext;
echo $title;
$descr = array_shift($html->find("meta[name='description']"))->content;
echo $descr;

Upvotes: 2

Ryan B
Ryan B

Reputation: 3392

I just took a look at the HTML DOM Parser, try:

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file('xxx'); //put url or filename in place of xxx
$title = $html->find('title');
echo $title->plaintext;

$descr = $html->find('meta[description]');
echo $descr->plaintext;

Upvotes: 10

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