I think I see now. You're pushing the links for each item onto an array and then reducing to the set of new links. Once there, you want to get back to the $rss->item that the link came from.

You still have $rss so you can find the item by searching. Maybe something like 

sub find_item() {
    my $link = shift;
    for my $item ( $rss->{items} ) {
        $item->{link} eq $link and return $item;
    }
    return undef;
}

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On reflection, I don't really care for the way you're keeping track of seen items. All that map grep stuff can be replaced with a simple hash. Maybe you'll have more luck if you restructure things a bit. Here's my skeletal example. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::RSS::LibXML;

my $url = 'http://www.usnews.com/rss/health-news/index.rss';
my $rss_file = '/tmp/.rss_download_file'; 
my $website_name = "usnews";

my %seen;

my $client = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $rss = XML::RSS::LibXML->new;

while ( 1 ) {
    print "polling: $website_name url: $url\n";

    $client->mirror($url, $rss_file);    # be nice to the server
    $rss->parsefile($rss_file) or die $!;
    
    if ( !%seen ) {
        print "first listing\n";
    }
    
    foreach my $item ( @{ $rss->{items} } ) {
        $seen{ $item->{link} }++ and next; # already saw this item

        # do stuff with the new item
        
        print $item->{title}, "\n";
        print "$item->{pubDate}\n";

        
        #$client->get() ...
    }
    
    sleep 15 * 60; # 15 minutes, play nice
}

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As an aside, fetching the RSS file every second is a good way to convince the server that you're attacking it. 15 minutes is probably okay but you should check the Terms of Service to be sure. On that same note, I like LWP::UserAgent's mirror method because it sends the "If-Modified-Since" header so you don't fetch the file if it hasn't changed.

In reply to Re^5: Parsing ITEM Tag from RSS feed using XML::RSS::LibXML by rowdog
in thread Parsing ITEM Tag from RSS feed using XML::RSS::LibXML by mr_p

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