Can you get tag of a folder with box API?

Question

Box allows you to create a tag for your folder, but how do you get that info out of the API? I don't see tag returning in the GET /folders/{id} API. Tag is not considered as a metadata either.

Answer 1

If you take a look at the Fields write up in the documentation it mentions that some fields are not returned by default. Within the docs they are listed in italics in objects, and have to be retrieved by adding a ?fields={field name} to your request.

The Folder Object has a tags parameter that you can fetch, but it is one of the ones not returned by default.

In this case, the API call would be GET /folders/{id}?fields=tags. One thing to note is that it will only return the tags in this case with some basic information (type of object and object id), not the full folder object. If you need other information in the call, you can add it to the fields that you want to pull. For example, if you wish to get the owned_by parameter as well, your request would be GET /folders/{id}?fields=owned_by,tags