Take a look at my scratchpad. There's a Perl program there let you see exactly what you're getting from HTML::TokeParser. You'll quickly see what tokens are assigned where and what you need to look for in the web source.

I used it when I was doing something very similar to what you're doing for parsing headlines on multiple web sites and it made the whole process quite easy.

Hope that helps!

Update: Thanks to suggestions from b10m and graff I'm including the code here so future monks can find it in a super search. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# HTML::TokeParser dumper
#
# quick & dirty code to print out TokeParser output

use strict;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use LWP::Simple;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $filename = 'temp.html';

open FH, ">$filename";
print FH get("http://www.buchanie.co.uk/news.asp");
close FH;

my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new($filename)
  || die "Couldn't read HTML file $filename: $!";

while(my $token = $stream->get_token) {
  if ($token->[0] eq "S"){
      print "Token:S 1:$token->[1]\n";
      foreach my $key(keys %{$token->[2]}){
              print "Key: $key Value: ${$token->[2]}{$key}\n";
              }
      print "3: @{$token->[3]}\n4: $token->[4]\n\n";
      }
  elsif ($token->[0] eq "E"){
         print "Token:E 1:$token->[1] 2: $token->[2]\n\n";
         }
  elsif ($token->[0] eq "T"){
         print "Token:T 1:$token->[1]\n\n";
         }
  elsif ($token->[0] eq "C"){
         print "Token:C 1:$token->[1]\n\n";
         }
  elsif ($token->[0] eq "D"){
         print "Token:D 1:$token->[1]\n\n";
         }
  else {print "Unknown token $token\n\n";}
  }

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In reply to Re: HTML::TokeParser help - parsing headlines by Popcorn Dave
in thread HTML::TokeParser help - parsing headlines by perleager

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