pages/{pageid}/tags (GET)
Overview
Retrieve the tags on a page.
- REST Method: GET
- Method Access: public
Uri Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
| pageid | string | either an integer page ID, "home", or "=" followed by a double uri-encoded page path |
Query Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
| authenticate | bool? | Force authentication for request (default: false) |
| redirects | int? | If zero, do not follow page redirects. |
| export | bool? | Strip tag xml of site specific information (default: false |
Return Codes
| Name | Value | Description |
| OK | 200 | The request completed successfully |
| Bad Request | 400 | Invalid input parameter or request body |
| Forbidden | 403 | Read access to the page is required |
| Not Found | 404 | The requested page could not be found |
Message Format
Output:
<tags count="{int}" href="{uri}">
<tag value="{text}">
<type>{text|date|define}</type>
<uri>{text}</uri>
<title>{text}</title>
<related count="{int}">
<page id="{int}" href="{uri}">
<title>{text}</title>
<path>{text}</path>
</page>
</related>
</tag>
...
</tags>
C# Code Sample: Retrieve Page Tags
The following code example retrieves the tags on the page called "Page Title":
Sample Code
Plug p = Plug.New("http://deki-hayes/@api/deki");
p.At("users", "authenticate").WithCredentials("admin", "password").Get();
p.At("pages", "=Page_Title", "tags").Get();
Sample Response from executing Code
<tags count="3" href="http://deki-hayes/@api/deki/pages/31/tags">
<tag value="text tag">
<type>text</type>
<uri>http://deki-hayes/Special:Tags?tag=text+tag</uri>
<title>text tag</title>
</tag>
<tag value="date:2007-08-29">
<type>date</type>
<uri>http://deki-hayes/Special:Events?from=2007-08-29</uri>
<title>Wednesday, August 29, 2007</title>
</tag>
<tag value="define:this tag is a define">
<type>define</type>
<uri>http://deki-hayes/Page_Title</uri>
<title>this tag is a define</title>
<related count="1">
<page id="29" href="http://deki-hayes/@api/deki/pages/29">
<title>DekiWiki (Hayes)</title>
<path />
</page>
</related>
</tag>
</tags>
Curl Code Sample: Retrieve Page Tags
The following command retrieves a list of tags attached to page "foo":
Sample Code
curl -u username:password -i http://mindtouch.address/@api/deki/pages/=foo/tags
Sample Response from executing Code
Sample response of running the command on a page with two tags:
Content-Type: application/xml
<tags count="2" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/pages/565/tags">
<tag value="awesome" id="10" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/site/tags/10">
<type>text</type>
<uri>http://192.168.59.128/Special:Tags?tag=awesome</uri>
<title>awesome</title>
</tag>
<tag value="real cool" id="11" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/site/tags/11">
<type>text</type>
<uri>http://192.168.59.128/Special:Tags?tag=real+cool</uri>
<title>real cool</title>
</tag>
</tags>
Implementation notes
curl flags
- -u
- Provides external user authentication. Note that if anonymous access is available and authentication is not forced, this flag may be omitted.
- -i
- Outputs the HTTP response headers. Useful for debugging.
Pages
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