Using javascript to rename multiple HTML files with <TITLE> </TITLE> in each file

Question

I used HTTRACK to download federal rules from a government website, and the resulting HTML files were not intuitively named. Each file has a set of tags <TITLE></TITLE>that will serve well to label each file in a way that will be used to create electronic books. I want to turn these rules into an e-book for my Kindle so that I can easily adjust the position, and not carry volumes of books with me.

My preferred text / hex editor, UltraEdit Professional 15.20.0.1026, has script commands that let you embed the JavaScript engine. Studying possible solutions to my problem, I found xmlTitleSave on the IDM UltraEdit website.

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Script Name: xmlTitleSave.js
// Creation Date: 2008-06-09
// Last Modified: 
// Copyright: none
// Purpose: find the <title> value in an XML document, then saves the file as the 
// title.xml in a user-specified directory
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

//Some variables we need
var regex = "<title>(.*)</title>" //Perl regular expression to find title string
var file_path = UltraEdit.getString("Path to save file at? !! MUST PRE EXIST !!",1);

// Start at the beginning of the file
UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();

UltraEdit.activeDocument.unicodeToASCII();

// Turn on regular expressions
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.regExp = true;

// Find it
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find(regex);

// Load it into a selection
var titl = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection;

// Javascript function 'match' will match the regex within the javascript engine 
// so we can extract the actual title via array
t = titl.match(regex);

// 't' is an array of the match from 'titl' based on the var 'regex'
// the 2nd value of the array gives us what we need... then append '.xml'
saveTitle = t[1]+".xml";

UltraEdit.saveAs(file_path + saveTitle);

// Uncomment for debugging
// UltraEdit.outputWindow.write("titl = " + titl);
// UltraEdit.outputWindow.write("t = " + t);

My question is double:

• Can I change this JavaScript to extract content <TITLE></TITLE>from an HTML file and rename files?
• If JavaScript cannot be easily changed, is there a script / program / black magic / animal sacrifice that can do the same thing?

EDIT: I was able to get the script to work as desired by deleting the line UltraEdit.activeDocument.unicodeToASCII();and changing the file extension to .html. My only problem is that although this script works with individual open files, it does not execute the batch process in the directory.

Answer 1

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UltraEdit, regex, <title>(.*)</title> XML-, HTML.

.html .xml

saveTitle = t[1]+".html";

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Answer 2

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require 'fileutils'

dir = "/your/directory"
files = Dir["#{dir}/*.html"]

files.each do |file|
  html = IO.read file
  title = $1 if html.match /<title>([^<]+)<\/title>/i
  FileUtils.mv file "#{dir}/#{title}.html"
  puts "Renamed #{file} to #{title}.html."
end

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Answer 3

XML HTML script , ; , , :

saveTitle = t[1]+".xml";

:

saveTitle = t[1]+".html";

Answer 4

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