How-To: Extract HTML Page Titles with Inspyder Power Search

A quick guide to capturing all the page titles on a website.

Step 1: Enter your Root URL

Run Power Search and enter the URL of the website you want to work on. For this example, we'll use 'www.inspyder.com'.

Step 2: Enter your Query

Enter the following into the Query field (no quotes): "<title>#PageTitle#</title>". Set the Query mode as Wildcard.
This query will extract any text found on each webpage between the <title> tags and store it into a field in the results called "PageTitle". Later, we can export the results and open them in Excel for further analysis.

Step 3: Configure Additional Settings

Ensure that "Ignore Case" and "Include HTML" Query Options are checked. Ignore case tells Power Search to match the <title> tags in upper or lower case. Include HTML tells Power Search not to remove the HTML tags before using our query on the page.

Step 4: Click Go!

Click the Go button to start the crawl. Power Search will go through each page on the site and capture all the text found between HTML <title> tags. You can stop the crawl at any time by clicking the red "X" button. When the crawl is completed you can export the results by clicking "Project | Export Results..." from the main menu.