# Help: Filtering Feedparser RSS output

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-filtering-feedparser-rss-output/34384>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [17 October 2020 02:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-filtering-feedparser-rss-output/34384 "2020-10-17T02:22:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![cflynn17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@cflynn17](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cflynn17)\
**Post date:** [17 October 2020 02:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-filtering-feedparser-rss-output/34384/1 "2020-10-17T02:22:40Z")

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I am trying to run a rss feed through a feedparser node to a text-to-speech node, but the feedparser output has the website url included with the msg.payload. How can I filter the output to not include the url?

 ![feed data](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/7/2/72e5e4fee4f3fbcf3b02a95d1238662210fcb5d5.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [17 October 2020 07:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-filtering-feedparser-rss-output/34384/2 "2020-10-17T07:09:20Z")

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run it through a function node with this in

```auto
msg.payload = msg.payload.split("<", 1)[0];
return msg;

```

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**Author:** ![cflynn17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@cflynn17](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cflynn17)\
**Post date:** [19 October 2020 01:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-filtering-feedparser-rss-output/34384/3 "2020-10-19T01:59:40Z")

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Thank you so much! This fixed my problem straight away.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [2 November 2020 01:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-filtering-feedparser-rss-output/34384/4 "2020-11-02T01:59:48Z")

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