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A picture of a set of tags, a pun on video tagging

Video tagging best practices

Adding Tags is a great way to simplify searches in your video collection - you can simply search for a specific tag to show all of the videos.

Doug Sillars

January 1, 2020

Adding tags is a great way to simplify searches in your video collection - you can simply search for a specific tag to show all of the videos.

Adding tags is easy, but there are a few tricks you should be aware of. For example this video has the tag "captions":

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If I want to add a tag "dialogue", I cannot simply Update the Video with a new caption. The PATCH command will rewrite the "tag" entry.


You can see more about available tagging commands in the API reference documentation:



Best practice


Show the Video to receive a JSON similar to the snippet above.  Collect any existing tags, append the new tag, and then update the video:
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and you'll have the correct tags on the video:
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Example of tags in action


upload.a.video/toDiscord is an uploader that tags each video with 'Discord'  We then have a way to see all te videos in our collection that have been posted to Discord channels.


Conclusion


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