# Topic auto tagging

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-auto-tagging/54894
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 28, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-auto-tagging/54894 "2016-12-28T18:10:19Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-auto-tagging/54894/15 "2018-07-03T20:04:37Z")

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That would be absolutely awesome! Especially if it’s not just words but also regular expressions. Auto-tagging based on regular expressions would bring tags in discourse to a whole new level!

> [@neil](#):
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> Each watched word needs to also specify which tag to add, for example.

Yes, and I also realize that the existing actions apply to posts while tags can only be applied to topics. So the question is: will tagging actions only be based on the first post? Or can any reply also trigger the tag? Or will it be a setting, whether it applies to both?..

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