Fetch the title of a web page using URL in a server script

[Prince Mendoza]

I'm trying to create a function that will fetch the title of a web page given the URL.

My initial idea is to use the GlideHTTPRequest API using some sort of the following:

var url = 'https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-articles/useful-string-methods/ta-p/2324172'; //Sample URL
var request = new GlideHTTPRequest(url);
var response = request.get();
gs.print(response.getBody());

However, I'm getting the HTML using this method.

I would appreciate any pointers to how I should approach this problem.

[Prince Mendoza · Accepted solution]

Something like this seem to work but I am open for other suggestions:

var url = 'https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-articles/useful-string-methods/ta-p/2324172'; //Sample URL
var request = new GlideHTTPRequest(url);
var response = request.get();
var html = response.getBody().toString();
var title = html.slice(html.indexOf('<title>')+7,html.indexOf('</title>'));
gs.print(title);

Note: If you use this code for pages in ServiceNow Community, you get "Bounce SSL" as title due to the redirect but it works for other web pages.