remove customer tags via api

[evaness]

I can assign tags to customers using a code like below.

url="https://store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2022-01/customers/customer_id.json"
json={"customer":{"id":"customer_id","tags":"champion"}}
r = requests.put(url=url,json=json)

but I don't know what to do to remove a tag. I tried something like below, it seems to work but I'm not so sure.

url="https://store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2022-01/customers/customer_id.json"
json={"customer":{"id":"customer_id","tags":""}} #empty tags field
r = requests.put(url=url,json=json)

[awwdam · Accepted solution]

Hey @evaness,

I took a closer look at this for you, and was initially able replicate with some testing. Updating customer tags with a similar request  "tags": "" - was returning an error.

Generally, using an empty value or an empty array [] in a PUT request would be the correct approach to removing tags with the REST API. This mirrors the functionality of tags on orders and products.

When testing again our results were successful, so I'm confident everything is working as expected. If you are getting errors or facing unexpected behaviors, please log x-request-id header values returned with the affected API response and share share - we can absolutely take a another look if needed - Cheers!