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title: "Collect Text"
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/text/collecttext
markdown: https://docs.nodetool.ai/nodes/nodetool/text/collecttext.md
product: NodeTool
source: https://github.com/nodetool-ai/nodetool/blob/main/docs/nodes/nodetool/text/collecttext.md
---

# Collect Text

**Type:** `nodetool.text.Collect`

**Namespace:** `nodetool.text`

## Description

Collects streaming text inputs into a single concatenated string.
    text, collect, stream, aggregate

## Properties

| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|----------|------|-------------|---------|
| input_item | `str` | Text to collect. | `` |
| separator | `str` | Separator between collected items. | `` |

## Outputs

| Output | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| output | `str` |  |

## Related Nodes

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