In my app using a UIWebView, I'm able to grab the page title: <title>Title Here</title> as Title Here using DOM.
DOM is used in PHP, Javascript, Java, many other languages; not to mention Objective-C.
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NSString *title = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document. title"];
(please note the forum puts a space in document.title ...odd)
Take a look at the following link.
Note that this uses a UIWebview solution:
How To Inject JavaScript Functions Into a UIWebView | iPhone Development Blog