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Is it possible to tag a snapshot using the API?

Posted December 3, 2019 1.1k views
DigitalOcean API and CLI (doctl)

I see that in the snapshots API, there is a list of “tags” per snapshot.

Is it possible to add a tag to a snapshot using the API?
Also, is it possible to fetch all the snapshots with a certain tag?

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  • firedragondol December 3, 2019
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    To specify, I’d like to tag a droplet snapshot. A volume snapshot would be fine if it’s possible to take a snapshot of the default volume of a droplet (I don’t have any additional ones)

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mbarton December 5, 2019

Hi @firedragondol, sorry for the confusion. You can tag Droplet Snapshots via the API - they’re considered an image, so you would pass “resource_type”:“image”

Hope this helps!

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bobbyiliev December 3, 2019

Hello,

As far as I can see this is supported. According to the official documentation currently tagging of Droplets, Images, Volumes, and Volume Snapshots is supported.

You could take a look at this part of the API documentation in order to see the exact request that you need in order to do that:

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#tag-a-resource

Regarding retrieving by tag, you could take a look at this part of the documentation:

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#retrieve-a-tag

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby

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  • firedragondol December 3, 2019

    Hey @bobbyiliev I wasn’t precise enough in my question: Can I tag a droplet snapshot?

    I see I can tag volume snapshots, I’m not sure if I can create a snapshot of the default volume of a droplet (I don’t have any additional volume on the droplet beside the default one)

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smadhavapeddi December 5, 2019

Hey, yes you can do it for Volumes and Snapshots of Volumes but not for Droplet Snapshot at this moment.

A Tag is a label that can be applied to a resource (currently Droplets, Images, Volumes, Volume Snapshots, and Database clusters) in order to better organize or facilitate the lookups and actions on it.

https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#tags

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