diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index c9168208..b9fda2b0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ include doc/po4a.conf doc/*.po doc/*.pot
 include doc/en/*.1 doc/en/*.5
 include doc/de/*.1 doc/de/*.5
 include doc/Makefile
-include doc/examples/*.sh doc/examples/*.bat
+include doc/examples/*.sh doc/examples/*.bat doc/examples/*.py
 include doc/examples/linkcheckerrc_loginurl
 include linkcheck/dns/changelog.txt
 recursive-include tests *.py *.result *.html *.ico *.txt *.zip *.asc *.css *.xhtml *.sqlite *.adr *.swf
diff --git a/debian/linkchecker.examples b/debian/linkchecker.examples
index cae4ced5..a1eee305 100644
--- a/debian/linkchecker.examples
+++ b/debian/linkchecker.examples
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ doc/examples/check_blacklist.sh
 doc/examples/check_for_x_errors.sh
 doc/examples/check_urls.sh
 doc/examples/linkcheckerrc_loginurl
+doc/examples/filter_xml_output.py
 doc/robots.txt.example
 cgi-bin/lc.fcgi
 config/create.sql
diff --git a/doc/examples/filter_xml_output.py b/doc/examples/filter_xml_output.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..53fd23ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/examples/filter_xml_output.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+# Copyright (C) 2011 Bastian Kleineidam
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+"""
+Example to filter XML output.
+Call with XML output filename as first argument.
+Prints filtered result on standard output.
+"""
+import sys
+from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse
+
+
+def main (args):
+    filename = args[0]
+    with open(filename) as fd:
+        tree = parse(fd)
+        filter_tree(tree)
+        tree.write(sys.stdout, encoding='utf-8')
+
+
+def filter_tree(tree):
+    """Filter all 401 errors."""
+    to_remove = []
+    for elem in tree.findall('urldata'):
+        valid = elem.find('valid')
+        if valid is not None and valid.text == '0' and \
+           valid.attrib.get('result', '').startswith('401'):
+            to_remove.append(elem)
+    root = tree.getroot()
+    for elem in to_remove:
+        root.remove(elem)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv[1:])