# Batch tagging through console

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-tagging-through-console/47602>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 21, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-tagging-through-console/47602 "2016-07-21T14:22:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-tagging-through-console/47602/8 "2018-02-09T23:33:03Z")

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Hello all,

I was trying to mass assign/append tags to topics based on category. I don’t really see a place to do this within the GUI that doesn’t take a long time. ( Select-all only works on what your screen has scrolled too. )

From the rails console I’ve been trying something like this ( old thread )

> [@Batch tagging through console](https://meta.discourse.org/t/batch-tagging-through-console/47602):
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> Hello, we just updated a bunch of the tags on our site and were wondering if it would be possible to batch tag a bunch of old topics that contain a certain keyword/url in the first post in a certain category through the console without updating the last edit time? e.g. – Add a soundcloud tag to all topics in the music category if the first post contains a [soundcloud.com](http://soundcloud.com) url, but without bumping all the last edit dates. I’m not the most comfortable in the console, so any help would be great! T…

I’m currently on [v2.0.0.beta2 +5]

For instance, I’d simply like to assign tag “classic” to ALL topics within category “CLASSIC”.

Kind Regards

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