note George_Sherston Well now you've been and gone and messed up the system... I'm afraid my puny non-fuzzy logic script only picks out the first node from each person in the thread. This is a fault. I know! I'm sorry! Anybody who has the time / skill to do better than this - let me have it, sibling: <code>#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI qw(:standard :cgi-lib); use LWP::Simple; my $url = "http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=110166"; my $html = get $url or die "could not get $!"; my %names; while ($html =~ s/=(\d*?)&lastnode_id=110166">[^<]*<\/A><BR> by <A HREF="\/index\.pl\?node_id=\d*&lastnode_id=110166">(.*?)<\/A> on \w{3} \d{2}, \d{4} at \d{2}:\d{2}//s) { $names{$2} = $1 unless $names{$2}; } </code><strong>update: </strong> I notice that [demerphq] has [124742|done this] already... [124774|as has] [crazyinsomniac].§ <br><br><A HREF="http://www.sprogress.com">George Sherston</A> 110166 124766