# How to remove tags via API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-tags-via-api/61232
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-tags-via-api/61232 "2017-04-19T07:50:21Z")
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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-tags-via-api/61232/2 "2017-04-19T08:48:30Z")

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You can work out exactly what you need following this topic:

> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …

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