regular expressions or something else?

I have a problem. I'm trying to get a Google search results page via snoopy and then display the links of the results it returns in an application. I know about the fetchlinks function in snoopy, but I'm having trouble getting the text between the <a> and </a> tags. Yeah, I know, I should use the Google API, but my client doesn't want me doing that, probably because they might have to pay for that. any suggestions?