Gettitle

• A Python 3 script depends on ChromeDriver (controled by Selenium) to grab the title of webpage (even the webpages use JavaScript).
• Support multiple urls in one command.
• Can print out in (plaintext|markdown|rst) format.
• Auto copy to clipboard.

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Requirements

• ChromeDriver (Optional)
  • You need to install Google Chrome of course.
  • Used by Selenium in the project for some special websites.
  • You need to download the ChromeDriver and put it into some dir which is in your $PATH.
  • Make sure the version of Chrome is matachable with the downloaded ChromeDriver executable.
  • If you are Arch Linux user, you can install ChromeDriver via aur/chromedriver.
• xclip (Optional, If you are Linux User and want to autocopy result to clipboard.)
  • Used by Pyperclip on Linux in this project.
    • No additional modules required for Windows and Mac users according to pyperclip.
  • For autocopy result into your clipboard, so you can just paste it to wherever you want.

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Installation

Requires pip >= 19.0 (Because of using Poetry and pyproject.toml)

$ pip install git+https://github.com/M157q/gettitle

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Usage

usage: gettitle [-h] [-s {md,rst}] [-ul] [-c] [-d] url [url ...]

Get webpage title(s) by url(s) from terminal.

positional arguments:
  url                   url(s) of the webpage

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s {md,rst}, --syntax {md,rst}
                        choose output syntax. 'md' for Markdown, 'rst' for
                        reStructuredText.
  -ul, --unordered-list
                        Enable this option for using Unordered List. Only
                        works when syntax is Markdown or reStructuredText.
  -c, --compact         output in compact mode. (No empty line between each
                        result.)
  -d, --debug           print out webpage source code and title for debugging

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Examples

plaintext

$ gettitle blog.m157q.tw
================================================================================
Home | Just for noting
https://blog.m157q.tw/

================================================================================
Copied to clipboard.

Markdown

$ gettitle -s md blog.m157q.tw
================================================================================
[Home | Just for noting](https://blog.m157q.tw/)

================================================================================
Copied to clipboard.

reStructuredText

$ gettitle -s rst blog.m157q.tw
================================================================================
`Home | Just for noting <https://blog.m157q.tw/>`_

================================================================================
Copied to clipboard.

Multiple URLs

$ gettitle blog.m157q.tw blog.m157q.tw
================================================================================
Home | Just for noting
https://blog.m157q.tw/

Home | Just for noting
https://blog.m157q.tw/

================================================================================
Copied to clipboard.

Compact mode

$ gettitle -c -s md blog.m157q.tw blog.m157q.tw
================================================================================
[Home | Just for noting](https://blog.m157q.tw/)
[Home | Just for noting](https://blog.m157q.tw/)
================================================================================
Copied to clipboard.

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Testing

$ poetry install

$ make test