How to get website title from c#

A simpler way to get the content:

WebClient x = new WebClient();
string source = x.DownloadString("http://www.singingeels.com/");

A simpler, more reliable way to get the title:

string title = Regex.Match(source, @"\<title\b[^>]*\>\s*(?<Title>[\s\S]*?)\</title\>",
    RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups["Title"].Value;

Perhaps with this suggestion a new world opens up for you I also had this question and came to this

Download "Html Agility Pack" from http://html-agility-pack.net/?z=codeplex

Or go to nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/HtmlAgilityPack/ And add in this reference.

Add folow using in the code file:

using HtmlAgilityPack;

Write folowing code in your methode:

var webGet = new HtmlWeb();
var document = webGet.Load(url);    
var title = document.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("html/head/title").InnerText;

Sources:

https://codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-scrape-meta-data-from-a-url-using-htmlagilitypack-in-c/ HtmlAgilityPack obtain Title and meta

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