ApplescriptObjc Detect Title in HTML Code

Well, the least amount of code would be the following which you could use with NSAppleScript and retrieve the string:

tell application "Safari" to set urlTitle to name of its front document

For this site: NSAppleScript Class Reference

Result:

2016-02-10 22:44:31.681 scanhtml[3876:3912239] <NSAppleEventDescriptor: 'utxt'("NSAppleScript Class Reference")>

I have adapted code found on stackoverflow that uses NSScanner, and not NSAppleScript:

In cv.html, <title>HTML5 Canvas • Text on an Arc</title>:

Result: 2016-02-11 10:52:06.024 scanit[1155:1046188] HTML5 Canvas • Text on an Arc

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28204380/objective-c-using-nsscanner-to-obtai n-body-from-html

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

@autoreleasepool {

NSString *startTag = @"<title>";

NSString *endTag = @"</title>";

NSString *path = @"~/Desktop/cv.html";

NSString *stdPath = [path stringByStandardizingPath];

NSString *htmlContent = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:stdPath

encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding

error:NULL];

// NSScanner* newScanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:@"<title>HTML5 Canvas • Text on an Arc</title>"];

NSScanner* newScanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:htmlContent];

NSString *titleText;

while (![newScanner isAtEnd]) {

[newScanner scanUpToString:startTag intoString:NULL];

// step over initial title tag

[newScanner scanString:startTag intoString:NULL];

[newScanner scanUpToString:endTag intoString:&titleText];

}

NSLog(@"%@", titleText);

}

return 0;

}