HTML Title Retriever With Entity Support : Parse HTML « Network « Python Tutorial

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from htmlentitydefs import entitydefs
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import sys

class TitleParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        self.title = ''
        self.readingtitle = 0
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'title':
            self.readingtitle = 1

    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.readingtitle:
            self.title += data

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag == 'title':
            self.readingtitle = 0

    def handle_entityref(self, name):
        if entitydefs.has_key(name):
            self.handle_data(entitydefs[name])
        else:
            self.handle_data('&' + name + ';')

    def handle_charref(self, name):
        try:
            charnum = int(name)
        except ValueError:
            return

        if charnum < 1 or charnum > 255:
            return

        self.handle_data(chr(charnum))

    def gettitle(self):
        return self.title

fd = open(sys.argv[1])
tp = TitleParser()
tp.feed(fd.read())
print "Title is:", tp.gettitle()