Cannot add tags via the API

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Cannot add tags via the API

Several users are experiencing difficulties adding tags to topics via the API. fefrei initially encountered a 403 Forbidden error, resolving the issue by including the required slug in the API call.

fefrei shared the solution, mentioning that the slug must be correct for the API call to work.

Diana_Naranjo then reported a similar issue, despite using the slug, and was advised by fefrei to use Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead of JSON-encoding the body. Diana_Naranjo acknowledged the mistake and corrected it.

Additionally, huynhthai824 shared an error when updating tags for topics with a keyword search, but the issue is unrelated to the API tag-adding problem.

1

I’m trying to add tags via the API, but I’m doing something wrong.

Here’s a good request made from the website:

PUT https://example.com/t/ueber-die-kategorie-organisation/74 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 53
Accept: */*
Origin: https://example.com
X-CSRF-Token: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
DNT: 1
Referer: https://example.com/t/ueber-die-kategorie-organisation/74
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,de;q=0.6
Cookie: ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

tags%5B%5D=archiv-organisation&tags%5B%5D=archiv-2015

Here’s what I am trying to do:

PUT https://example.com/t/74?api_key=■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■&api_username=system HTTP/1.1
host: example.com
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
content-length: 22
Connection: close

tags%5B%5D=archiv-2015

The server responds with 403 Forbidden.

Does anyone see what I’m doing wrong?

2

Aha, I found it. As it turns out, the slug is required and must be correct for the API call to work.
That’s slightly annoying, but a solvable problem :slight_smile:

3

I am trying to update tags, buteven using the slug does not procude any change
URL: http://forumURL/t/topic_slug/topic_id?api_key=api_key&api_username=user_name
PUT DATA:
{"title": "Some title", "tags[]":"tag_id", "category_id": "category_id"}

4

It looks like you are JSON-Encoding the body, which won’t work. Your body should look like this:

tags%5B%5D=archiv-2015
5

Thank you, I realize now that I was trying to set the tags using a header
Content-type: application/json when it should be Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

6

Hello, i have mistake when update tag for topics with keyword search.

Topic.find_by(name: ‘quận 1 Dt:’).update_all( tag: quận-1)

My console wrong? thank!