jsoup extract Website Title in Java

In this post, we show you how to use the jsoup library in a Java application to extract the title of a website.

Add jsoup library to your Java project

To use jsoup Java library in the Gradle build project, add the following dependency into the build.gradle file.

compile 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.13.1'

To use jsoup Java library in the Maven build project, add the following dependency into the pom.xml file.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
    <version>1.13.1</version>
</dependency>

To download the jsoup-1.13.1.jar file you can visit jsoup download page at jsoup.org/download

How to use jsoup to extract title of website

The jsoup library provides Document.title() method to get the title of a HTML document. The following Java code example to show you how to get and parse the website content into a Document object. And using the title() method to get the title of a website.

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;

import java.io.IOException;

public class GetWebsiteTitle {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        try {
            String websiteUrl = "https://simplesolution.dev";

            Document document = Jsoup.connect(websiteUrl).get();

            String title = document.title();

            System.out.println(title);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}