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title: "Distributor"
slug: "dataflow-nodes-distributor"
updated: 2025-04-30T06:08:55Z
published: 2025-04-30T06:08:55Z
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# Distributor

A simple utility node. This node immediately outputs whatever is sent to it.

## Parameters

none

## Inputs

### Audio

Accepts Everything

### Events

Accepts Everything

## Outputs

### Audio

Writes all the incoming audio to output as is.

### Events

Writes all the incoming events to output as is.

## Remarks

### Project Structure

The distributor node, due to its pass-through properties can be used to "sanitize" projects from too many connections. In the example below, it is utilized to reduce the number of connections.

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Without using a Distributor Node, the connections would look as such:

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The Distributor node can be used in tandem with [Constraints](/v1/docs/dataflow-architecture-project-design) to create *Optional* and *Parametric* operations. In the example below, the text from SR Http will only be *punctuated* if `PunctuateText == true` and it will only be *filtered* if `FilterText == true`.

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Expected outputs of the project can be seen in the table below:

| PunctuateText | FilterText | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| true | true | recognized, punctuated, filtered |
| true | false | recognized, punctuated |
| false | true | recognized, filtered |
| false | false | recognized |

### Supported flow types

Stream, Batch

## Release Notes

    

****v1.0.0****

        
        

- Introduced node.