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Is there a way to request only the head portion of an HTML page without needing to download the plete webpage? I am only interested meta tags like description, keywords and title (tag).

To generalize are there any HTTP methods that I could use to only request specific tags from a server without needing to download the whole webpage ?

Please let me know.

Is there a way to request only the head portion of an HTML page without needing to download the plete webpage? I am only interested meta tags like description, keywords and title (tag).

To generalize are there any HTTP methods that I could use to only request specific tags from a server without needing to download the whole webpage ?

Please let me know.

  • javascript
  • http
  • web-scraping
  • meta
Share Improve this question asked Oct 25, 2015 at 13:55 trktrk 2,22815 silver badges21 bronze badges 4
  • Make yourself familiar with the 'HEAD' Method of the http protocol. – Axel Amthor Commented Oct 25, 2015 at 14:04
  • 1 @Axel requesting an HTML page with the HEAD method is not going to yield any HTML. – CodeCaster Commented Oct 25, 2015 at 14:05
  • 1 @CodeCaster oops yes, you're right. doesn't answer this question. – Axel Amthor Commented Oct 25, 2015 at 14:12
  • You may use streaming HTML parser and close the stream (drop connection) once you got the desired data. – Juicy Scripter Commented Oct 25, 2015 at 14:41
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The things you're looking for are defined at the HTML level, a couple of layers above the HTTP layer. So no, there's no foolproof way to only request certain tags from an HTML page.

Given those tags are bound to be present in the <head> section of the page, you can stop reading the response after you encountered the </head> tag though - if the HTML is well-formed.

No.

The closest HTTP has is the Range header which lets you request specific bytes from servers which support it.

The problem is that you can't reliably know how many bytes the head section of the document will take up before you request it.

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