# Cannot add tags via the API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-add-tags-via-the-api/44120>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 12, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-add-tags-via-the-api/44120 "2016-05-12T14:10:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-add-tags-via-the-api/44120/4 "2016-06-07T08:37:58Z")

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

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

```

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