# Could we get a "tags" field in the API?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/could-we-get-a-tags-field-in-the-api/5884>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [October 12, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/could-we-get-a-tags-field-in-the-api/5884 "2019-10-12T18:40:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![zzq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/zzq/32/6471_2.png) [@zzq](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zzq)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/could-we-get-a-tags-field-in-the-api/5884/1 "2019-10-12T18:40:21Z")

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Beeminder’s tags feature is both super-obscure and super-useful. I’ve got a custom browser extension that (among other things) gives me a really nice interface to filter goals by tags, and I must say that it’s really convenient.

Right now I’m building an API integration, and I thought I’d have it do something similar. But strange as it seems, they don’t seem to be included on the [goals resource](http://api.beeminder.com/#goal) in the API.

Searching in the forum, I found [this comment](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/remember-tags-work-dashboard/4742/8) by @mbork, which seems to imply that I’m not just blindly missing the field: it’s really not there.

I’d really like it if this could be added as a field on the goals resource thorough the API. As it stands, external Beeminder clients don’t have any access at all to one of Beeminder’s greatest power-user features.

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**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/could-we-get-a-tags-field-in-the-api/5884/2 "2019-10-13T09:17:38Z")

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The tags feature needs to become less obscure (in general)