Grabbing title tag from web page

At least a couple of options, the first using BeautifulSoup:

import urllib
import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen("https://www.google.com"))
print soup.title.string

And the second one using lxml:

import lxml.html
t = lxml.html.parse(url)
print t.find(".//title").text

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