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**Category:** General\
**Created:** [28 March 2022 20:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/resolved-convert-html-to-array-of-objects/60470 "2022-03-28T20:18:47Z")\
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**Author:**  [@plfinch](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/plfinch)\
**Post date:** [28 March 2022 20:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/resolved-convert-html-to-array-of-objects/60470/1 "2022-03-28T20:18:47Z")
I have an html response containing item element tags and subelement tags within. I want to convert this to an array of item objects containing the item elements. Here is a very simplified version of the HTML:
```auto
-
Alert Number 1
Description Number 1
-
Alert Number 1
Description Number 1
```
Here is the desired JSON output:
```auto
[
{
"title": "Alert Number 1",
"description": "Description Number 1"
},
{
"title": "Alert Number 2",
"description": "Description Number 2"
}
]
```
I thought I'd be able to do this easily with the Edit html node but that gets me item objects with the elements combined in a string or html, rather than object elements. The simple flow below shows what I want and what I get with the html option in the Edit html node.
```auto
[{"id":"bdbbd45b058fddfe","type":"tab","label":"Flow 1","disabled":false,"info":"","env":[]},{"id":"69d37d2a1234967a","type":"debug","z":"bdbbd45b058fddfe","name":"Output JSON","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"output","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":540,"y":200,"wires":[]},{"id":"99da6278232eb673","type":"html","z":"bdbbd45b058fddfe","name":"Get Items - HTML","property":"payload","outproperty":"output","tag":"item","ret":"html","as":"single","x":330,"y":200,"wires":[["54533185b06f155b","69d37d2a1234967a","ecf7b8348d823484"]]},{"id":"ecf7b8348d823484","type":"debug","z":"bdbbd45b058fddfe","name":"Desired JSON","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"desired","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":540,"y":240,"wires":[]},{"id":"eee8c7a43f66f6b1","type":"inject","z":"bdbbd45b058fddfe","name":"Setup","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"desired","v":"[{\"title\":\"Alert Number 1\",\"description\":\"Description Number 1\"},{\"title\":\"Alert Number 2\",\"description\":\"Description Number 2\"}]","vt":"json"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":" - Alert Number 1 Description Number 1
- Alert Number 1 Description Number 1
","payloadType":"str","x":150,"y":200,"wires":[["99da6278232eb673"]]},{"id":"54533185b06f155b","type":"debug","z":"bdbbd45b058fddfe","name":"HTML Source","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":540,"y":160,"wires":[]}]
```
So what is the best/easiest/proper method to achieve this?
[For those who notice this is actually an RSS parser, the feedparser node does not contain the initialization and timing control that I need. The user contrib versions with input could work but are overkill for what I am doing.]
Peter
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**Author:**  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [28 March 2022 20:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/resolved-convert-html-to-array-of-objects/60470/2 "2022-03-28T20:36:03Z")
Try feeding it through an xml node.
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**Author:**  [@plfinch](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/plfinch)\
**Post date:** [28 March 2022 20:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/resolved-convert-html-to-array-of-objects/60470/3 "2022-03-28T20:40:45Z")
DOH! Yeah, that works fine. Thanks!
Peter
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**Author:**  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [28 March 2022 20:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/resolved-convert-html-to-array-of-objects/60470/4 "2022-03-28T20:46:56Z")
Excellent. Glad to be of help.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [11 April 2022 20:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/resolved-convert-html-to-array-of-objects/60470/5 "2022-04-11T20:47:52Z")
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