diff --git a/1-metadata-getter.py b/1-metadata-getter.py
index 616aeb92c7abc39977666ac8c359200aed824b15..3dff117bfbdaa17900ecd89040e63fbc138ba0c7 100644
--- a/1-metadata-getter.py
+++ b/1-metadata-getter.py
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ def get_pages( root_url, no_records_per_page, uuid=None, the_filter=None ):
 
         logging.debug("Got %s records." % len(records))
 
+        filtered_records = records
+
         # apply filter
         if the_filter != None:
             logging.debug("Filtering out unwanted records, if present.")