# Cleaning the URL before Tag Manager

**URL:** <https://community.piwik.pro/t/cleaning-the-url-before-tag-manager/1001>\
**Category:** Data collection and tags\
**Created:** [September 14, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/cleaning-the-url-before-tag-manager/1001 "2022-09-14T12:53:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mikko\_Piippo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/mikko_piippo/32/270_2.png) [@Mikko\_Piippo](https://community.piwik.pro/u/Mikko_Piippo)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/cleaning-the-url-before-tag-manager/1001/1 "2022-09-14T12:53:26Z")

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Hi,

I would need to clean / mask some elements from the URL / path from analytics data. Is there a suggested way to do this with standard implementation with tag manager?

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**Author:** ![mbaersch](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/mbaersch/32/35_2.png) [@mbaersch](https://community.piwik.pro/u/mbaersch)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/cleaning-the-url-before-tag-manager/1001/2 "2022-09-16T11:47:34Z")

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Hi,

I use the option to track pageviews manually in the standard tag and then use a virtual pageview tag for controlled URLs and titles from JS variables. Works just like expected. Would you prefer to use configuration fields to overwrite those dimensions?

best,  
Markus

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**Author:** ![Mikko\_Piippo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/mikko_piippo/32/270_2.png) [@Mikko\_Piippo](https://community.piwik.pro/u/Mikko_Piippo)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/cleaning-the-url-before-tag-manager/1001/3 "2022-09-25T20:31:28Z")

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Hi,

that was what I did 🙂 after some thinking…

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**Author:** ![jude\_nwachukwu](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/jude_nwachukwu/32/412_2.png) [@jude\_nwachukwu](https://community.piwik.pro/u/jude_nwachukwu)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/cleaning-the-url-before-tag-manager/1001/4 "2022-09-26T14:50:30Z")

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That’s awesome to hear