# get registrationName of filter object

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/get-registrationname-of-filter-object/17175
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 10, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/get-registrationname-of-filter-object/17175 "2025-09-10T09:15:32Z")
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### Author: ![otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/otaolafr/32/3595_2.png) [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/get-registrationname-of-filter-object/17175/1 "2025-09-10T09:15:33Z")

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Hello,

how can one get the registrationName of a filter? or the name of the filter on the pipeline if it is a different thing from registrationName.

thanks

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### Author: ![otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/otaolafr/32/3595_2.png) [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/get-registrationname-of-filter-object/17175/2 "2025-09-10T09:22:25Z")

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okey, this should give what I was looking for:

`[k for (k, v) in GetSources().items() if v == filter][0][0]`

I imagine that there is a cleaner way, but at least it works (y)