//new_from_file parse it instantly so i have to make a new my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new(); //set ignore_unkown to false $tree->ignore_unknown(0); //than parse the content $tree->parse_content($webcrawler->content()); print CONTENT $tree; if (my $div = $tree->look_down(_tag => "article" , class=>"article hentry")) { print $div->as_text(), "\n"; } else { print "Not found"; } $tree->delete();