Hmm ... well ... once you get paste the dodgy use of eval (do you really need to do that ... probably not). Basically the core problem is your data structure is not a hash of hashes but a hash of arrays of hashes.

  foreach my $e ( @{$data->{channel}[0]{items}} ) {
   ...
   print $e->{title}[0] ...
  }
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my $rss = XML::RSS->new( version => '2.0' );
my $rss->parse( $rss_xml );

# print the title and link of each RSS item
foreach my $item ( @{$rss->{items}} ) {
  print "title: $item->{title}\n";
  print "link: $item->{link}\n";
  print "desc: $item->{description}\n";
}
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