... use WWW::Mechanize; my $url = shift; # any .xml RSS feed url my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get( $url ); my @content = split /\n/, $mech->content; my $title_pattern = "(.*?)"; my $description_pattern = "(.*?)"; my @titletags = grep s/$title_pattern/$1/i, @content; my @descriptiontags = grep s/$description_pattern/$1/i, @content; my $thetitle=$titletags[0]; if ( $thetitle !~ s/<\!\[CDATA\[//g ) {} if ( $thetitle !~ s/Librivox\://g ) {} if ( $thetitle !~ s/]]>//g ) {} print "$thetitle\n"; my $thedescription=$descriptiontags[0]; if ($thedescription !~ s/<\!\[CDATA\[//g ) {} if ($thedescription !~ s/]]>//g ) {} print "$thedescription\n";