getting meta tags info using curl and get_meta_tags()

Question

is there a way to use curl such that you can do something that is equivalent to the get_meta_tags() function in php? specifically to get the meta tags of an external site using curl in php with the least amount of overhead possible

Answer 1

is there a way to use curl such that you can do something that is equivalent to the get_meta_tags() function in php

Nope, I don't think so.

The best way would be to fetch the data, and parse it using a HTML parser. Alternatively, there are several regex based approaches in the user contributed notes in the manual.