# Is it possible to bulk upload tags? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [10월 1, 2016, 4:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940 "2016-10-01T04:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 4:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/1 "2016-10-01T04:55:40Z")
Sorry for posting all werid sort of questions but my requirement is also a little weird. I am building a forum using discourse that talks about Indian stock market which has over 3500 stocks. I was recommended that I can use tags to identify each stocks. Now the problem is that if I have to 3500 stocks manually its a really pain, was just wondering if I have the option of bulk upload or something to hack around with? Any help is highly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:01오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/2 "2016-10-01T05:01:59Z")
Tags are created dynamically, there should be no need to “pre-upload” them. Once a tag is used on a topic, it will appear in the tag dropdown for other topics, unless restricted via category settings. You can define what trust-level users can create tags, and what trust-level users can use tags via site settings. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/3 "2016-10-01T05:20:22Z")
well my needs are different, like I said I as a moderator would like to control the list of tags and pre-populate them when user wants to query about a specific stock. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/4 "2016-10-01T05:22:16Z")
Because what worse can happen is people use two different tags to talk about the same stock. which is something I would like to avoid. Please advise @jomaxro ---
**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/5 "2016-10-01T05:23:51Z")
You’ve gone beyond my knowledge, unfortunately 😞. Hopefully someone else can assist - this is a very specific use case you have. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/6 "2016-10-01T05:24:36Z")
no problem brother. thanks a lot ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 12:14오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/7 "2016-10-01T12:14:19Z")
If you want to create a certain tag list, you simply need to create a topic in a staff/admin area (think similar to Site Assets) and tag it with all the tags you want to accept. Then set `min trust to create tag` to 4 (so no one else can create them unless you promote them to TL 4). And since you are talking 3500 tags, I’d suggest multiple topics in a staff/admin category. So you can split them up in some logical way. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/8 "2016-10-01T17:29:51Z")
thanks a lot @cpradio. really appreciate it. will there be a performance impact of having so many tags? i currently have a linode cloud with 2gb memory and 40 gb hdd. dual core. ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 5:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/9 "2016-10-01T17:36:29Z")
Not sure. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a forum with 3500 tags before. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 1, 2016, 8:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/10 "2016-10-01T20:53:39Z")
ok thanks for the information ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/11 "2016-10-02T20:07:12Z")
@cpradio : quick question, if I want to add multiple tags in a single topic then should I just separate them with commas? ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/12 "2016-10-02T20:26:23Z")
Do you mean via a PUT request?, I think you send an array of tags. The best way is to open the dev console and watch the network tag as you add multiple tags to a topic. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/13 "2016-10-02T20:29:30Z")
unfortunately i see the max limit as 5 tags 😞 ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/14 "2016-10-02T20:30:01Z")
That is a site setting. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:38오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/15 "2016-10-02T20:38:48Z")
Ahh I see, is there a performance impact if i add 300 tags per topic? ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/16 "2016-10-02T20:40:15Z")
In a staff category? Doubtful, just realize you’d really want to change it to a lower limit afterwards, which will make it impossible to edit those staff topics again without removing a good majority of the tags. ---
**Author:** ![Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ratul_bhattacharya/32/62281_2.png) [@Ratul\_Bhattacharya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ratul_Bhattacharya)\ **Post date:** [10월 2, 2016, 8:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/17 "2016-10-02T20:42:53Z")
yes for sure. will reduce. Will create 10 topics having 300 ish tags each. ---
**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\ **Post date:** [10월 15, 2018, 8:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/18 "2018-10-15T08:59:59Z")
It is now possible to upload tags in bulk: [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7ac08f936e24572842bd93c122a794dd9c0ec3d5](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7ac08f936e24572842bd93c122a794dd9c0ec3d5) ---
**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\ **Post date:** [10월 15, 2018, 9:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-bulk-upload-tags/50940/19 "2018-10-15T09:00:01Z")