Does Box Support Reading Tags on Weblinks?

I'm writing an API integration for a website and stumbled onto a really strange issue with the Box API: I can create weblinks with tags via the API, but can't read those tags. However, I can read tags of files and folders.

What I've tried:
GET https://api.box.com/2.0/files/1234567890
GET https://api.box.com/2.0/web_links/1234567890
GET https://api.box.com/2.0/web_links/1234567890?fields=tags
GET https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/0/items?fields=tags
GET https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/0/items?fields=tags&content_types=tags

However, these commands return zero tags in responses for weblinks.

So my question is does Box support reading tags on weblinks via the API? And if not, has anyone discovered any workarounds?

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P.S. Since their code editor is stupid and converts all links to urls, I had to remove the code block above.

mwiller

September 18, 2019 09:49

You're right, it does appear that this is not currently supported in the API. I was able to reproduce the issue, but I'm not aware of any workarounds, so I filed a ticket internally with the Box team that owns the web_links API endpoint to try and get this resolved.

CremaDesign

September 18, 2019 10:05

I've also filed a feature request here, since this is a feature I believe a lot of people could use:
https://pulse.box.com/forums/909778/suggestions/38627119

Only workaround I've thought of is a bit hacky: add any tags we need to read after a colon in the name or description fields.

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