kulmapaikka-ircbot/plugins/getUrl.js

var Promise = require('promise');
var request = require('request');

var requestPromise = function (url, urlArgs) {
	var promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
		request({
			url: url,
			qs: urlArgs,
			json: false
		}, function(error, response, body) {
			if(!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
				resolve(body);
			} else {
				reject(error);
			}
		});
	});
	return promise;
};

module.exports = function(config) {
	// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13087888/getting-the-page-title-from-a-scraped-webpage
	var getTitle = function(url) {
		var urlOpts = {host: url, path: '/', port: '80'};

		var re = /(<\s*title[^>]*>((.|\n)+?)<\s*\/\s*title)>/gi;
		var urlArgs = {};

		var promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
			var urlPromise = requestPromise(url, urlArgs);
			urlPromise.then(function(data) {
				
				var match = re.exec(data);
				
				if (match && match[2]) {
					var title = match[2].trim(); // remove whitespace
					title = title.replace(/\r?\n|\r/g, '');	// remove newlines
					
					resolve(title);
				} else {
					reject();
				}
			});
		});
		return promise;
	};
	
	return getTitle;
};