Extract part of a regex match

Solution 1:

Use ( ) in regexp and group(1) in python to retrieve the captured string (re.search will return None if it doesn't find the result, so don't use group() directly):

title_search = re.search('<title>(.*)</title>', html, re.IGNORECASE)

if title_search:
    title = title_search.group(1)

Solution 2:

Note that starting Python 3.8, and the introduction of assignment expressions (PEP 572) (:= operator), it's possible to improve a bit on Krzysztof Krasoń's solution by capturing the match result directly within the if condition as a variable and re-use it in the condition's body:

# pattern = '<title>(.*)</title>'
# text = '<title>hello</title>'
if match := re.search(pattern, text, re.IGNORECASE):
  title = match.group(1)
# hello

Solution 3:

Try using capturing groups:

title = re.search('<title>(.*)</title>', html, re.IGNORECASE).group(1)

Solution 4:

May I recommend you to Beautiful Soup. Soup is a very good lib to parse all of your html document.

soup = BeatifulSoup(html_doc)
titleName = soup.title.name