Extract Title from html link

Question

I have the following HTML string:

The Link.  

How can I extract title from the HTML s

Answer 1

As you have the HtmlAgilityPack already, you can extract the "title" attribute like this:

Option Infer On
Option Strict On

Imports HtmlAgilityPack

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        Dim a = "The Link."
        Dim doc As New HtmlDocument()
        doc.LoadHtml(a)
        Dim node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("/a")
        Dim title = node?.Attributes("title")?.Value

        Console.WriteLine(title) ' outputs "the page"

        Console.ReadLine()

    End Sub

End Module

Of course, you won't need that many lines of code as that is a complete working example.

The ?. parts prevent it from throwing an error if node is Nothing (in this case if there wasn't an "" element) and prevent it from throwing an error if there is no "title" attribute.