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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-in-an-attachment-pipeline/224096 "2020-03-18T11:56:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@photocurio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/photocurio)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-in-an-attachment-pipeline/224096/1 "2020-03-18T11:56:57Z")
I am indexing documents with Elasticsearch, and its working well. My problem is that some documents have hyperlinks in them. Search is finding terms in these links, which I don't want.
I tried to add a html\_strip processor to the pipeline to remove the links on ingest, like this:
```auto
PIPELINE = {
"description": "Extract attachment information"
"processors": {
"foreach": {
"field": "attachments",
"processor": {
"attachment": {
"target_field": "_ingest._value.attachment",
"field": "_ingest._value.data",
"ignore_missing": 1,
"indexed_chars": -1,
"ignore_failure": 1
}
}
}
},
{
"foreach": {
"field": "attachments",
"processor": {
"remove": {
"field": "_ingest._value.data"
}
}
}
},
{
"foreach": {
"field": "attachments",
"processor": {
"html_strip": {
"field": "_ingest._value.attachment"
}
}
}
}
}
```
This does not work. I re-send the mapping, and re-index the attachments, but I still find hits inside hyperlinks in documents. Got any tips?
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**Author:**  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-in-an-attachment-pipeline/224096/2 "2020-03-18T14:51:54Z")
Hey,
please provide a **fully reproducible but minimal example**. I have created a snippet that works for me, but that won't help you or me 🙂
```auto
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
"pipeline": {
"processors": [
{
"foreach": {
"field": "attachments",
"processor": {
"html_strip": {
"field": "_ingest._value.attachment"
}
}
}
}
]
},
"docs": [
{
"_source": {
"attachments": [
{
"attachment": "This is a test"
}
]
}
}
]
}
```
Maybe the structure of your documents is different?
--Alex
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**Author:**  [@photocurio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/photocurio)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-in-an-attachment-pipeline/224096/3 "2020-03-18T23:29:38Z")
Thanks Alex, good point. I'll test this way.
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**Author:**  [@photocurio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/photocurio)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-in-an-attachment-pipeline/224096/4 "2020-03-20T21:06:29Z")
I found the issue. I'm using Elasticsearch 6.4. It looks like there is no _html\_strip_ processor in this version.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-in-an-attachment-pipeline/224096/5 "2020-04-17T21:06:40Z")
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