Is it possible to view public tags?

[rlfordon]

I can view my own tag collections, and I can see which of my tag collections are made public, but is it possible to see a list of all tag collections that have been made public?

[mlissner]

That'd make a lot of sense, but I'm sorry to say there's no such view. Can you expand on why it'd be useful? I'm curious because I think a long list of other people's public tags might wind up pretty junky.

[rlfordon]

I'm looking for litigation trackers on a particular topic right now, so it would be useful to see if anyone else has already done the work of collecting the cases. (To make it even more useful, I could just follow someone else's tag and get updates whenever cases are filed, or fork their tracker and add my own cases to it, and get updates. I know none of this is set up like this at the moment.)

[mlissner]

Actually, it does occur to me that it's possible to do this via API. This says there are 1,300 public tags:

https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/tag/?count=on

And this shows them:

https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/tag/

That's something!

[rlfordon]

This is helpful thanks!!

[rlfordon]

I looked at this in a bit more depth, and it looks like the vast majority of these (1328 out of 1340) were created prior to 2020, and so are probably just tests? And I don't see any of the public tags that I know about, including one I did on the East Palestine train crash, one of yours on Mar-A-Lago cases, and one a friend did on January 6 insurrectionists. So I think I'll need to look for another approach.

[mlissner]

Oh, I made a mistake. The API we want is tags, not tag. Unfortunately we have two different tagging systems. This URL works better:

https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/tags/?count=on

And you can see my mar-a-lago cases here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/tags/498/

Sorry about that!