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**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [July 31, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/filtering-html-extract-for-specific-external-links/160014 "2025-07-31T23:37:50Z")\
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**Author:**  [@tmo](https://community.n8n.io/u/tmo)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/filtering-html-extract-for-specific-external-links/160014/1 "2025-07-31T23:37:51Z")
Hi all- new to n8n and this community so please go easy!
I am trying to set up a simple workflow to understand if the external links on a particular site work and if they return the correct information.
I have done a HTML extract which returns around 250 links (mixture of internal and external)
But then I have tried various methods but cannot get it to filter only on the specific external links that start with [https://links](https://links). …
1. tried function node but it wouldn’t return anything once executed
2. tried the filter note - at first an error message as couldn’t handle 200+ links at once
So I included split in batches of 1 node before filter but then it would return nothing.
Any ideas?
Thank you all
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**Author:**  [@jabbson](https://community.n8n.io/u/jabbson)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/filtering-html-extract-for-specific-external-links/160014/2 "2025-08-01T00:05:40Z")
This is how I would do it:
Alternatively, this selector would do the same here:
```auto
a[href^="https://links"]
```
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**Author:**  [@tmo](https://community.n8n.io/u/tmo)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/filtering-html-extract-for-specific-external-links/160014/3 "2025-08-01T07:08:32Z")
amazing the a[href^=“[https://links](https://links)”] solution so simple and worked. Thank you
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**Author:**  [@jabbson](https://community.n8n.io/u/jabbson)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/filtering-html-extract-for-specific-external-links/160014/4 "2025-08-01T12:59:09Z")
Great!! Kindly mark the answer as solution then. Thank you.
Cheers!
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**Author:**  [@system](https://community.n8n.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/filtering-html-extract-for-specific-external-links/160014/5 "2025-08-08T12:59:20Z")
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