This example extracts all links from a document. It will print one line for each link, containing the URL and the textual description between the ... tags: use HTML::TokeParser; $p = HTML::TokeParser->new(shift||"index.html"); while (my $token = $p->get_tag("a")) { my $url = $token->[1]{href} || "-"; my $text = $p->get_trimmed_text("/a"); print "$url\t$text\n"; }