good way to go about doing page excerpts

[headboy]

I'm looking to achieve the effect facebook has when you put a link into a message - they scrape the title and some images from it.I noticed they also do it extremely quickly. (they must cache some of the re-sent items?)Does anyone have any ideas on how to approach this with PHP?Can I somehow quickly grab the \[code\]<title>\[/code\] block of the page without cURLing the entire thing?Thanks!