View your featured tags

GET /api/v1/featured_tags HTTP/1.1

List all hashtags featured on your profile.

Returns: Array of FeaturedTag
OAuth: User token + read:accounts
Version history:
3.0.0 - added

Request

Headers
Authorization
required Provide this header with Bearer <user token> to gain authorized access to this API method.

Response

200: OK
[
  {
    "id": "627",
    "name": "nowplaying",
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/tagged/nowplaying",
    "statuses_count": 70,
    "last_status_at": "2022-08-29T12:03:35.061Z"
  }
]
401: Unauthorized

Invalid or missing Authorization header.

{
  "error": "The access token is invalid"
}

Feature a tag

POST /api/v1/featured_tags HTTP/1.1

Promote a hashtag on your profile.

Returns: FeaturedTag
OAuth: User token + write:accounts
Version history:
3.0.0 - added

Request

Headers
Authorization
required Provide this header with Bearer <user token> to gain authorized access to this API method.
Form data parameters
name
required String. The hashtag to be featured, without the hash sign.

Response

200: OK

A FeaturedTag will be created with the specified name.

{
  "id": "13174",
  "name": "circasurvive",
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/tagged/circasurvive",
  "statuses_count": 23,
  "last_status_at": "2021-10-22T14:47:35.357Z"
}
401: Unauthorized

Invalid or missing Authorization header.

{
  "error": "The access token is invalid"
}
422: Unprocessable entity

If name is not a valid hashtag, e.g. contains illegal characters or only numbers

{
  "error": "Validation failed: Tag is invalid"
}

Unfeature a tag {unfeature}

DELETE /api/v1/featured_tags/:id HTTP/1.1

Stop promoting a hashtag on your profile.

Returns: empty object
OAuth: User token + write:accounts
Version history:
3.0.0 - added

Request

Path parameters
:id
required String. The ID of the FeaturedTag in the database.
Headers
Authorization
required Provide this header with Bearer <user token> to gain authorized access to this API method.

Response

200: OK

The tag was unfeatured.

{}
401: Unauthorized

Invalid or missing Authorization header.

{
  "error": "The access token is invalid"
}
404: Not found

FeaturedTag is not owned by you or does not exist

{
  "error": "Record not found"
}

View suggested tags to feature

GET /api/v1/featured_tags/suggestions HTTP/1.1

Shows up to 10 recently-used tags.

Returns: Array of Tag
OAuth: User token + read:accounts
Version history:
3.0.0 - added

Request

Headers
Authorization
required Provide this header with Bearer <user token> to gain authorized access to this API method.

Response

200: OK

Truncated results to first and last tag.

[
  {
    "name": "nowplaying",
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/nowplaying",
    "history": [
      {
        "day": "1574553600",
        "uses": "200",
        "accounts": "31"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574467200",
        "uses": "272",
        "accounts": "39"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574380800",
        "uses": "345",
        "accounts": "40"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574294400",
        "uses": "366",
        "accounts": "46"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574208000",
        "uses": "226",
        "accounts": "32"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574121600",
        "uses": "217",
        "accounts": "42"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574035200",
        "uses": "214",
        "accounts": "34"
      }
    ]
  },
  // ...
  {
    "name": "mastothemes",
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/mastothemes",
    "history": [
      {
        "day": "1574553600",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574467200",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574380800",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574294400",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574208000",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574121600",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      },
      {
        "day": "1574035200",
        "uses": "0",
        "accounts": "0"
      }
    ]
  }
]
401: Unauthorized

Invalid or missing Authorization header.

{
  "error": "The access token is invalid"
}

See also

app/controllers/api/v1/featured_tags_controller.rb
app/controllers/api/v1/featured_tags/suggestions_controller.rb