Extracting page title using javascript

Question

I\'m trying to extract the page title of an external site by using a url.

You know how \"document.title\" returns the title of the page the JS is running on? I was w

Answer 1

I think you're looking for $.ajax, since this is a cross domain request, which can be done from js using a call to YQL:

http://usejquery.com/posts/the-jquery-cross-domain-ajax-guide

EDIT

Okay I finally got a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/zXVcy/

EDIT

Here is how to fix the script tag problem in xdomain.js:

   if (_success) {
    var dataString = "";
    try { 
    dataString = data.results[0].replace(/<script[^>]+?\/>|<script(.|\s)*?\/script>/gi, '');
    }
    catch {
    dataString = data.results[0];

}
    // Fake XHR callback.
    _success.call(this, {
    responseText: dataString
    }, 'success');
       }
    }

Answer 2

That is not possible through Javascript. You must use a server script to achieve this.