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Get Title and Description of URL in Asp.net Like Facebook

May 13, 2013
Introduction

Here I will explain how to get title & meta description of url in asp.net using C# and VB.NET or get page title and description from page url in asp.net using HTMLAgilityPack in C# and VB.NET.

Description


To get title & description of url we need to write the following code in aspx page


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Get Title and Meta Description from Live URL</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<h3>Get Title and Meta Description from Live URL</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<b>Enter Url:</b>
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtURL" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" ontextchanged="txtURL_TextChanged" Width="250px"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b>Title:</b>
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtTiltle" runat="server" Width="250px"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<b>Description:</b>
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtDesc" runat="server" Rows="7" Columns="40" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Now in code behind add the following namespaces

C# Code


using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using HtmlAgilityPack;
Here I added new HtmlAgilityPack namespace by using this reference we can parse out HTML pages you can get this dll reference from attached sample folder or from this url http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com

Now add below code in code behind


protected void txtURL_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
String url = txtURL.Text;
//Get Title
WebClient x = new WebClient();
string source = x.DownloadString(url);
txtTiltle.Text = Regex.Match(source, @"\<title\b[^>]*\>\s*(?<Title>[\s\S]*?)\</title\>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups["Title"].Value;
//Method to get Meta Tags
GetMetaTagValues(url);
}
private void GetMetaTagValues(string url)
{
//Get Meta Tags
var webGet = new HtmlWeb();
var document = webGet.Load(url);

var metaTags = document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//meta");

if (metaTags != null)
{
foreach (var tag in metaTags)
{
if (tag.Attributes["name"] != null && tag.Attributes["content"] != null && tag.Attributes["name"].Value == "description")
{
txtDesc.Text = tag.Attributes["content"].Value;
}
}
}
}
VB.NET Code


Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports HtmlAgilityPack
Partial Class VBCode
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
End Sub
Protected Sub txtURL_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
Dim url As [String] = txtURL.Text
'Get Title
Dim x As New WebClient()
Dim source As String = x.DownloadString(url)
txtTiltle.Text = Regex.Match(source, "\<title\b[^>]*\>\s*(?<Title>[\s\S]*?)\</title\>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups("Title").Value
'Method to get Meta Tags
GetMetaTagValues(url)
End Sub
Private Sub GetMetaTagValues(url As String)
'Get Meta Tags
Dim webGet = New HtmlWeb()
Dim document = webGet.Load(url)
Dim metaTags = document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//meta")
Dim tag
If metaTags IsNot Nothing Then
For Each tag In metaTags
If tag.Attributes("name") IsNot Nothing AndAlso tag.Attributes("content") IsNot Nothing AndAlso tag.Attributes("name").Value = "description" Then
txtDesc.Text = tag.Attributes("content").Value
End If
Next
End If
End Sub
End Class
Demo


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6 comments :

Anonymous said...

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Unknown said...

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find 1. file 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\www.facebook.com'.
and

2. System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved:

How to Resolve these errors....

Thanks

DotNet Kings said...

for this HtmlAgilityPack; namespace which files dll need to be added. i downloaded from codeplex it has so many folder are available. In which dll i need to include..

Thanks,

Ramanathan.N

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Anonymous said...

google not allowimg meta tags any more ! how to get description now ??

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