#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple qw/ get /; use HTML::TokeParser; my $html = get('http://www.google.com/#googleholiday.pl'); my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$html); my $t = $p->get_tag('img'); die $t->[1]->{alt}; __END__ #the one liner version #one perl -MLWP::Simple -MHTML::TokeParser -e"die HTML::TokeParser->new(\(get('http://www.google.com/#googleholiday.pl')))->get_tag('img')->[1]->{alt};" #two perl -MLWP::Simple -MHTML::TokeParser -e'die HTML::TokeParser->new(\(get("http://www.google.com/#googleholiday.pl")))->get_tag("img")->[1]->{alt};'