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title: "Collect"
description: "Local-first visual environment for building and running AI workflows. Build agents visually, deploy anywhere, privacy by design."
canonical: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/control/collect
markdown: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/control/collect.md
product: NodeTool
source: https://github.com/nodetool-ai/nodetool/blob/main/docs/nodes/nodetool/control/collect.md
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# Collect

**Type:** `nodetool.control.Collect`

**Namespace:** `nodetool.control`

## Description

Collect items until the end of the stream and return them as a list.
    collector, aggregate, list, stream

    Use cases:
    - Gather results from multiple processing steps
    - Collect streaming data into batches
    - Aggregate outputs from parallel operations

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|---------|
| input_item | `any` | The input item to collect. | `[]` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `list[any]` |  |

## Related Nodes

Browse other nodes in the [nodetool.control](./) namespace.