How to get page title from URL in Google Sheets?

Question

If cell A1 contains URL text:

http://my.URL.com/some/path/my-page.html

How can I write a formula in A2 which extracts the page title:

my-page

Answer 1

You may try =REGEXEXTRACT with a regex featuring the following regex:

"^.*/(.*)\.[^.]+$"

It matches:

• ^ - start of string
• .*/ - matches the string up to the last /
• (.*) - matches and captures any 0+ chars up to the last .
• \\. - a dot
• [^.]+ - 1 or more chars other than a dot
• $ - asserts the position at the end of string.

Note that once a capturing group is defined in the pattern, REGEXEXTRACT returns the submatch captured.