If you're a tad familiar with XPath (or if you want to become familiar with it), you can try HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath, which adds XPath support to HTML::TreeBuilder.

The code looks like this:

use warnings;
use strict;

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $str = q{<a href ='some\\where'><img src='apple.gif'></img></a>
            <a href ='some\\where'>not an img</img></a>
            <a href ='some\\where'><img src='apple.gif'></img> and tex
+t</a>
           };
my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($str);

foreach my $tag ($root->findnodes( '//a[./img]'))
  { print "link: ", $tag->as_HTML; }

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If you want to capture the links that have only an image in the content, you can replace the condition by //a[./img and string()=""] (that doesn't exactly garantee that there's nothing else in the link, but getting the query 100% right is left as an exercise for the reader).

Of course if all you're interested in is the value of the src attribute, you can get it directly:

foreach my $url ($root->findnodes( '//a/img/@src'))
  { print "link: ", $url->getValue, "\n"; }

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Note that in that case the attribute are returned as HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath::Attribute objects, hence you need to use getValue to get the value. Hummm.... I wonder if that's in the docs, if not I'll add it.

In reply to Re: Extracting full links from HTML by mirod
in thread Extracting full links from HTML by wojtyk

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