I am using the API (Python) and getting a weird error related to "Tags Server"

Posted on November 12, 2017

This is the error message I am getting. The error is intermittent: digitalocean.baseapi.DataReadError: Error processing request to tags server: Deadline Exceeded. Please try again.

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Bobby

March 10, 2023

Hi there,

Just a quick follow up in case anyone comes across this in the future.

This should now be working as expected, here is the reference to the API docs:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/#operation/tags_assign_resources

The curl request to tag a resource would look like this:

curl -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"resources":[{"resource_id":"9569411","resource_type":"droplet"},{"resource_id":"7555620","resource_type":"image"},{"resource_id":"3d80cb72-342b-4aaa-b92e-4e4abb24a933","resource_type":"volume"}]}' \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/tags/awesome/resources"

The above translated to Python:

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/tags/awesome/resources"
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN}"
}
data = {
    "resources": [
        {"resource_id": "9569411", "resource_type": "droplet"},
        {"resource_id": "7555620", "resource_type": "image"},
        {"resource_id": "3d80cb72-342b-4aaa-b92e-4e4abb24a933", "resource_type": "volume"}
    ]
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))
print(response.json())